Bug 462856
| Summary: | kde cannot login after selecting enable desktop effects kde-settings-4.0-25.fc9.noarch | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | vikram goyal <vikigoyal> | ||||||
| Component: | kdebase-workspace | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | fedora, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, than, tuxbrewr | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-09-25 23:33:40 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Created attachment 317186 [details]
debug output
Simply put, your video hw/driver apparently doesn't support compositing. kwin is *supposed* fail more gracefully than this, however. kde-4.1.1 has a few fixes that may help here. In the meantime, you can manually disable compositing (desktop effects), but editing ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc, and change [Compositing] Enabled=true to [Compositing] Enabled=false AFAIK, the test to check if compositing is actually working is not in 4.1.x, only 4.2. OpenSUSE has a backport we could snatch though. Note that 4.2 and OpenSUSE's backport also enable compositing by default (because it has this self-test and automatic fallback now), this is something I don't think is a good idea in an F9 update at this point. Closing this as NOTABUG since its a hardware issue. |
Created attachment 317185 [details] The whole dot .kde dir Description of problem: Selecting 'enable desktop effects' from System-Settings -> Desktop crashed kde session and could not be started again Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-4.1.0-1.fc9.1.i386 kdebase-workspace-4.1.0-8.fc9.i386 kdebase-runtime-4.1.0-3.fc9.i386 kde-settings-4.0-25.fc9.noarch How reproducible: as described in description Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: