Bug 748843

Summary: gnome-shell doesn't start with two video adapters (intel, radeon) and two monitors.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Wehin <john.wehin>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: browning48ky, mailings, maxamillion, me, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description John Wehin 2011-10-25 13:54:02 UTC
Description of problem:

gnome-shell doesn't start with two video adapters (intel, radeon) and two monitors. Though it works on each monitor if connected separately.
     
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.16.0-2.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.14.2-2.20110727git8c9266ed2.fc16.x86_64
     
How reproducible:
Anytime
     
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect two VGA-monitors, each into its own video adapter.
2. boot
3. login to Gnome session

Actual results:
Gnome-shell fails to start and shows the "Gnome running in fallback" window. After I click OK, gnome-panel doesn't start either. Only wallpapers are shown on both monitors.

Expected results:
Gnome-shell starts.

Additional info:
I can run gnome-terminal from text console using "DISPLAY=:0.0 gnome-terminal" command. Then if I switch back to graphics and run gnome-panel from the terminal, it segfaults.

(gnome-panel:6074): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_context_get: assertion `priv->widget_path != NULL' failed
Ошибка сегментирования (core dumped)

Comment 1 John Wehin 2011-10-25 13:55:47 UTC
Created attachment 530092 [details]
dmesg

Comment 2 John Wehin 2011-10-25 13:56:41 UTC
Created attachment 530093 [details]
messages

Comment 3 John Wehin 2011-10-25 13:57:12 UTC
Created attachment 530094 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 4 John Wehin 2011-10-25 13:57:39 UTC
Created attachment 530095 [details]
Smolth

Comment 5 John Wehin 2011-10-25 13:58:44 UTC
Created attachment 530096 [details]
/var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log

Comment 6 John Wehin 2011-10-25 13:59:08 UTC
Created attachment 530097 [details]
/var/log/gdm/:0.log

Comment 7 John Wehin 2011-10-25 13:59:34 UTC
Created attachment 530098 [details]
/var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log

Comment 8 Ferry Huberts 2011-11-30 09:31:22 UTC
I have this issue too.
somehow the llvmpipe driver is chosen instead of the radeon driver for my

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]

Comment 9 Ferry Huberts 2011-11-30 10:01:21 UTC
I've fixed it by doing (don't know which action actually did the trick):

- removing all i686 packages, and installing there respective x86_64 packages
- install caribou.x86_64. the i686 was installed but not the x86_64 variant and the gdm log was complaining about it
- remove a leading minus in front of the systemd line in /etc/pam.d/system-auth
  (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743260#c5)

Comment 10 John Wehin 2012-07-17 00:41:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> I've fixed it by doing (don't know which action actually did the trick):
> 
> - removing all i686 packages, and installing there respective x86_64 packages
> - install caribou.x86_64. the i686 was installed but not the x86_64 variant
> and the gdm log was complaining about it
> - remove a leading minus in front of the systemd line in
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth
>   (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743260#c5)

try, wo result

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