Bug 736323

Summary: startx starts fallback mode
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: browning48ky, covex, massi.ergosum, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, satellitgo, travneff, walters
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Description Kamil Páral 2011-09-07 12:28:01 UTC
Description of problem:
I followed this test day:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-09-08_Intel
This test case:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_intelvideo_restartx

Usually gnome-shell starts for me. But when booting to initlevel 3 and issuing startx, only fallback mode starts for me. However, glxinfo still reports "Direct rendering: Yes".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.1.4-2.gite7b9933.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.16.0-2.fc16.x86_64
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_aeda99db-0564-4745-aac0-71df754a5e2d

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. follow the test case

Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2011-09-07 12:28:23 UTC
Created attachment 521859 [details]
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Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2011-09-07 12:28:48 UTC
Created attachment 521860 [details]
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Comment 3 Kamil Páral 2011-09-07 12:29:09 UTC
Created attachment 521861 [details]
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Comment 4 Kamil Páral 2011-09-07 12:29:26 UTC
Created attachment 521862 [details]
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Comment 5 Andrew 2011-09-13 09:26:21 UTC
Have same issue at both nouveau and intel cases. Also reproduced with following:

1. Boot the live image. Observe the correct behaviour (no fallback mode)
2. Run `telinit 3`
3. Run `startx`. Gnome 3 launches in fallback mode. Logging out and repeating startx results in same.
4. Run `telinit 5`. Gnome 3 launches with Shell (no fallback).


SW: testday's live image x64:
http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/graphics_test_week_20110905/graphics_test_week-20110905-x64.iso

HW: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_ea9d7586-9e38-47aa-8c35-0ac599e86a66

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