Xorg freeze on strartup

kpien · 2016-03-26 13:20:49

Hi,

I have fresh installation of arch, installed xorg and xinit and im using xf86-video-intel driver as my graphics card is intel 82852 (855GM). I didnt create any xorg configs as defaults should (?) work.

Problem is when i try to launch openbox or plasma - X starts, mouse shows and moves (in case of plasma its fancy mouse icon) but screen behind mouse is black and dead.

I launched X without ~/.xinitrc and twm is working fine. With awesome wm everything is ok as well, though rendering feels a bit slow. So at first i thought it is not xorg issue, but both openbox (standalone) and plasma freeze.

There is some floating point exception when closing xorg even with twm, but i dont know if this is relevant. I dont know any other logs that can tell me anything.

Also, it was the same on root and normal user. System is fully updated.

with twm, working: http://pastebin.com/SJy13ghg

with openbox, freeze at [891.428]: http://pastebin.com/pjqeBjR4

openbox was launched with --debug: http://pastebin.com/ZVuXbx02

pacman: http://pastebin.com/JJmyxXSm
dmesg: http://pastebin.com/vnWSHmm2
lspci: http://pastebin.com/FAGZJxss

Thanks for any help

Trilby · 2016-03-26 13:28:38

Welcome to the forums, thanks for including all the relevant details and logs in your post. The exception on x closing is definitely odd. But if twm works (at least partially) while openbox doesn't, I cant help but suspect that there might be two separate issues.

Can you post the ~/.xinitrc you used to launch openbox?

kpien · 2016-03-26 13:33:25

Sure, its just

exec openbox --debug

Without debug it's same, but there is no openbox log obviously.

Important thing, i think, is that with plasma it looks exactly same, maybe should i try something like lxde to have yet another de tested?

Last edited by kpien (2016-03-26 13:34:09)

Trilby · 2016-03-26 13:40:07

It couldn't hurt to try another - but I also don't think it would provide any more information. I was suspicious of two different problems: one related to the error message and leading to mesa issues, and the other with xinitrc. But your xinitrc looks fine. I suggested openbox as that shouldn't (AFAIK) rely on any fancy graphics capabilities (twm definitely doesn't) but plasma and some other modern full-featured DEs do depend on various graphic acceleration abilities.

I could be wrong about openbox not requiring these, in that case if you were to try another WM, something as lean as possible might be useful for another data point: tinyWM or dwm for example. But whether or not those work, the next step is to wait for someone who can interpret those mesa-related (or they look mesa-related to me) errors as that's likely the real issue.

kpien · 2016-03-26 13:46:52

Isnt awesome that another data point? Anyway, since it is only minute to try i did just try dwm and it launches fine, just like twm and awesome, producing same log as twm.

EDIT: LXDE launched fine and is working but on startup error dialog appears on screen

Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for 
org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached

As im not familiar with lxde i dont know what can it mean.

EDIT2: xfce4 also works, for now problem is in openbox and plasma, without this problem in twm, awesome, dwm, lxde, xfce4.

Last edited by kpien (2016-03-26 15:16:27)

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#1 2016-03-26 13:20:49

Xorg freeze on strartup

#2 2016-03-26 13:28:38

Re: Xorg freeze on strartup

#3 2016-03-26 13:33:25

Re: Xorg freeze on strartup

#4 2016-03-26 13:40:07

Re: Xorg freeze on strartup

#5 2016-03-26 13:46:52

Re: Xorg freeze on strartup

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