Bug 1618914

Summary: After system-update to F30, xfce DE hangs after login
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paul DeStefano <prd-fedora>
Component: xfce4-sessionAssignee: Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Paul DeStefano 2018-08-18 06:47:03 UTC
Description of problem:
Xfce Desktop Environment is broken/unusable after system upgrade.  The only pkgs upgraded during this process were Xfce pkgs and it looks like all the critical ones, like session, libxfce4ui, panel, and xfdesktop.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfce4-sesssion-4.13.1
xfce4-panel-4.13.3


Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf --refresh system-upgrade --download --releasever=30
2. dnf system-upgrade reboot

Actual results:
System takes a long time to boot and, after logging in, an empty white desktop shows with the mouse cursor in the middle of the screen, but xfce-panel never loads and the desktop wallpaper never sets.  session and panel are running, though.

Comment 1 Mukundan Ragavan 2018-08-18 11:59:21 UTC
Does your system have nvidia card?

Comment 2 Mukundan Ragavan 2018-08-18 12:03:41 UTC
I cannot reproduce this with a VM.

But, I CAN reproduce this in my laptop that has a nvidia GPU. Having said that, I do not think this is a nvidia GPU since I cannot reproduce this with MATE.


Please attach ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log and ~/.xsession-errors.

Comment 3 Paul DeStefano 2018-08-18 17:59:54 UTC
No, it's just a netbook with intel atom on-chip display.

Comment 4 Paul DeStefano 2018-08-18 18:06:30 UTC
Created attachment 1476791 [details]
.xsession-errors

I don't see your attachments on this bug.  But, here are mine.  I don't see anything suggestive.

Comment 5 Paul DeStefano 2018-08-18 18:07:00 UTC
Created attachment 1476792 [details]
.xfce4-session.verbose-log

Comment 6 Mukundan Ragavan 2018-08-19 00:10:13 UTC
There is a combination of xorg and xfwm4 that causes this bug.

Some Gentoo users also saw this from the looks of it.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8223584.html?sid=9d2dfff8175c2e37943e63ca8028a386

I will try to trace this.

Comment 7 Mukundan Ragavan 2018-08-19 00:10:46 UTC
See also, https://bugs.gentoo.org/650228

Comment 8 Mukundan Ragavan 2018-08-19 01:12:57 UTC
I have a temporary fix - disabling compositor.

Gentoo and Arch bugs seem to suggest this issue is fixed with xorg-x11-server 1.20.1. That does not seem to be the case with us here and I don't know why.

In the meantime, I don't want to leave Xfce broken. 4.13.1-2 (building on F30 and F29) should fix your issue. please test.

Comment 9 Paul DeStefano 2018-08-19 02:36:17 UTC
Wow, thanks!  I'll try it ASAP.  Should I check on updates-testing or koji?

But, I'm having upgrading any package with DNF, now, on F30.  You wouldn't happen to know about bug 1456079 would you.  I seem to run into this every time with rawhide.  Do you not have this problem, too?

Comment 10 Mukundan Ragavan 2018-08-19 15:35:34 UTC
(In reply to Paul DeStefano from comment #9)
> Wow, thanks!  I'll try it ASAP.  Should I check on updates-testing or koji?
> 

Just download it from koji if it's not showing up already.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1137512



> But, I'm having upgrading any package with DNF, now, on F30.  You wouldn't
> happen to know about bug 1456079 would you.  I seem to run into this every
> time with rawhide.  Do you not have this problem, too?

I do not remember seeing this. But, I do not use Rawhide as daily driver and only on a test vm/system. I will have to take a look.

Comment 11 Paul DeStefano 2018-08-20 08:07:19 UTC
Yep, I was able to get to the desktop with that build RPM and composer isn't working.  Thanks!

Comment 12 Paul DeStefano 2018-09-02 06:29:00 UTC
Thanks Miro.  That bug looks like exactly what we expect from comment 8.

Ragavan, I cannot tell from the gentoo bug if this has been fixed up stream or not; seems like there is still some confusion.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2018-09-04 22:36:38 UTC
xfwm4-4.13.1-3.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-dbb9beece8

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2018-09-04 22:45:05 UTC
xfwm4-4.13.1-3.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-dbb9beece8

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2018-09-05 21:27:40 UTC
xfwm4-4.13.1-3.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-dbb9beece8

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2018-09-12 02:54:46 UTC
xfwm4-4.13.1-3.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.