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zimtröllchen

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Registered: 2017-02-26

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[SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

today my cinnamon crashed out of nowhere and I cannot find anything useful in the logfiles. I remember i started spotify this morning and it crashed, so I closed spotify and everything was fine.
but now it crashed again. I cannot remember what I did last because I was afk. I came back -> cinnamon crashed and it crashed everytime I restarted it.
as soon as I log in, my cinnamon says it crashed, runs in fallback and asks if I want to restart. if I do, same message again, sad.

please excuse me, im a little bit annoyed by this I have a really important project to finish by the end of this week, well, the next week. next friday.
currently i am using openbox but I cannot work with it properly.

I don't know which logs may be important to you. I ran cinnamon --replace and got this:

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

(cinnamon:4365): GModule-CRITICAL **: g_module_close: assertion 'module->ref_count > 0' failed
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

(cinnamon:4365): GModule-CRITICAL **: g_module_close: assertion 'module->ref_count > 0' failed
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

(cinnamon:4365): GModule-CRITICAL **: g_module_close: assertion 'module->ref_count > 0' failed

(cinnamon:4365): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found.
Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

I am using a notebook with this nvidia optimus bs. I thought it might be helpful because that already caused allot of problems in the past.

I hope someone has any idea how to fix this.

Last edited by zimtröllchen (2017-02-26 22:53:28)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

Please post the systems xorg.log plus all configuration files you used for optimus as well as the output of the following commands

$ pacman -Qs mesa
$ pacman -Qs nvidia

Edit:
Oh and welcome to the arch linux forums zimtröllchen.

Last edited by loqs (2017-02-26 20:57:12)

zimtröllchen

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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

[  1274.058] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_tls_Dispatch)
[  1274.058] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[  1274.073] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_tls_Dispatch)

I have not set up my optimus/bumblebee yet. so all configs should be the default ones.

pacman -Qs mesa

local/glu 9.0.0-4
    Mesa OpenGL Utility library
local/lib32-glu 9.0.0-3
    Mesa OpenGL utility library (32 bits)
local/lib32-libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1-5
    S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) library for Mesa (32-bit)
local/lib32-mesa 17.0.0-2
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification (32-bit)
local/lib32-mesa-libgl 17.0.0-2
    Mesa 3-D graphics library (32-bit)
local/libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1-6
    S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) library for Mesa
local/mesa 17.0.0-2
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification
local/mesa-demos 8.3.0-2
    Mesa demos and tools
local/mesa-libgl 17.0.0-2
    Mesa 3-D graphics library

pacman -Qs nvidia

local/bumblebee 3.2.1-13
    NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux through VirtualGL
local/libvdpau 1.1.1-2
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 378.13-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia-304xx 304.135-1
    NVIDIA drivers for linux, 304xx legacy branch
local/nvidia-304xx-utils 304.135-3
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries, 304xx legacy branch
local/opencl-nvidia-304xx 304.135-3
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA, 304xx legacy branch
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.13-2 (xorg-drivers)
    Open Source 2D acceleration driver for nVidia cards

and thank you for that welcome, loqs!

Last edited by zimtröllchen (2017-03-01 12:37:31)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

[  1274.058] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_tls_Dispatch)
[  1274.058] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[  1274.073] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_tls_Dispatch)

This seems wrong to me.
Can you remove xf86-video-intel and post the new xorg.log after restarting lightdm or rebooting.

[  1274.018] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)

This is the only card mentioned in the log
What is the output of

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

zimtröllchen

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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

When xf86-video-intel is removed lightdm and lxdm as well wont start.  seems like there is only the intel driver installed right now?

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0686
	Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 640M] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0686
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

My best guess then is bumblebee is active,  that would explain the situation but that should have required you to do Bumblebee#Installing_Bumblebee_with_Intel.2FNVIDIA which as I understand you have not done.
What is the output of

$ systemctl status bumblebeed.service

zimtröllchen

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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

Oh No. I have installed bumblebee but i did not change any bumblebee related configuration file.

● bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2017-02-26 22:51:52 CET; 22min ago
 Main PID: 620 (bumblebeed)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 0B
      CPU: 0
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─620 /usr/bin/bumblebeed

Feb 26 22:51:52 archnb systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon.
Feb 26 22:51:52 archnb bumblebeed[620]: modprobe: FATAL: Module bbswitch not found in directory /lib/modules/4.9.11-1-ARCH
Feb 26 22:51:52 archnb bumblebeed[620]: [   19.070397] [ERROR]Module bbswitch could not be loaded (timeout?)
Feb 26 22:51:52 archnb bumblebeed[620]: [   19.070413] [WARN]No switching method available. The dedicated card will always be on.
Feb 26 22:51:52 archnb bumblebeed[620]: [   19.071373] [INFO]/usr/bin/bumblebeed 3.2.1 started

hmm. I just installed bbswitch restarted bumblebeed and

● bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2017-02-26 23:16:32 CET; 2s ago
 Main PID: 2091 (bumblebeed)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 1.0M
      CPU: 10ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─2091 /usr/bin/bumblebeed

Feb 26 23:16:32 archnb systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon.
Feb 26 23:16:32 archnb bumblebeed[2091]: [ 1498.644746] [INFO]/usr/bin/bumblebeed 3.2.1 started

could that have caused the problem all the time?

Last edited by zimtröllchen (2017-02-26 22:28:36)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

could that have caused the problem all the time?

Yes would work through all the steps for either optimus or bumblebee and see if the issue is resolved.
Also a GeForce GT 640M should be able to use the nvidia series of packages you are using nvidia-304xx packages.

zimtröllchen

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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon (ontop of lightdm) crashed out of nowhere

First of all: Thank you! Cinnamon isn't crashing anymore. Everything works just fine. Its a bit of a mess because i tried to "reset" cinnamon by deleting the configs (I was very desperate and asking in some forums is always the last thing I do)

I replaced the 304 driver with the latest nvidia package. i had installed the 340 before and "graded down" to the 304 while trying to fix the problem all by myself.
I cannot remember removing bbswitch. maybe an pacman -Syu yesterday could have caused that? or my 'removing every package starting with a "k"' in order to completely remove kde/plasma