Bug 524708

Summary:

annoying/blinking crashes during GUI environment startup

Product:

[Fedora] Fedora

Reporter:

Brock Organ <borgan>

Component:

openbox

Assignee:

Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>

Status:

CLOSED RAWHIDE

QA Contact:

Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>

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high

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high

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rawhide

CC:

davidz, dcantrell, mlichvar

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x86_64

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2009-09-22 11:37:39 UTC

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screenshot showing error dialog and incomplete graphical environment	none
similar blinking behavior using F12-Snap3-i686-Live-LXDE.torrent	none

Description Brock Organ 2009-09-21 20:30:16 UTC

* using F12-Snap3-x86_64-Live-LXDE.torrent
* booting the LXDE iso in a qemu virtual machine (F12)

Using the F12-Snap3-x86_64-Live-LXDE.torrent ISO, I was able to boot the ISO, but at the xdm/gdm welcome/login screen the graphical environment fails to start properly, a very annoying blinking pattern occurs, an an error dialog blinks rapidly and does not terminate:

"Warning: A crash in package openbox-3.4.7.2-10.fc12 has been detected"

A screenshot showing partially what the screen looks like (I'm not able to take a screenshot that adaquately captures the blinking) will be attached ...

Because of this error, the live CD environment does not finish starting ...

Comment 1 Brock Organ 2009-09-21 20:32:44 UTC

Created attachment 361992 [details]
screenshot showing error dialog and incomplete graphical environment

here's where the boot process hangs with the annoying blinking ... even though this screenshot catches the error dialog, it is a rare thing, it took ~6 screenshots to catch one the blinking occurs so rapidly and consistently that it is hard to time ...

Comment 2 Brock Organ 2009-09-21 20:48:11 UTC

same bad behavior occurs using F12-Snap3-i686-Live-LXDE.torrent in F12 qemu virtual environment ...

Comment 3 Brock Organ 2009-09-21 20:51:12 UTC

Created attachment 361998 [details]
similar blinking behavior using F12-Snap3-i686-Live-LXDE.torrent

Comment 4 Miroslav Lichvar 2009-09-22 11:37:39 UTC

Openbox was missing support for 24-bit images. An upstream patch is included in openbox-3.4.7.2-11.fc12.

A workaround is to use a different qemu graphics driver.