Bug 861650
| Summary: | gnome-shell fails to start with Nvidia drivers | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andrew Meredith <andrew> |
| Component: | gnome-shell | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | fmuellner, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters |
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-08-01 07:09:47 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description of problem: Starting gnome-shell with the rpmfusion proprietary nvidia drivers results in gnome-shell exiting with the message: (gnome-shell:4555): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to find suitable fbconfig for the GLX context: Failed to find any compatible fbconfigs Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.4.1-5.fc17.x86_64 kmod-nvidia-304.37-1.fc17.4.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304.37-1.fc17.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-304.37-1.fc17.x86_64 nvidia-settings-1.0-20.fc17.x86_64 kmod-nvidia-3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64-304.37-1.fc17.3.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in Actual results: A screen with just backdrop and no menus Expected results: Gnome3 UI Additional info: There are various similar issues on bugzilla and other sites, but they are a year or so old and have been fixed. This issue showed up in the last few days and cannot be fixed with the workarounds given. The workaround I have found is as follows. 1 - Remove the rpath from the gnome-shell binary using: # chrpath -d /usr/bin/gnome-shell 2 - Add ld.so.conf paths /usr/lib64/gnome-bluetooth & /usr/lib64/gnome-shell .. I did this by creating two files: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gnome-shell.conf (containing /usr/lib64/gnome-shell) /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gnome-bluetooth.conf (containing /usr/lib64/gnome-bluetooth) 3 - Run as root "ldconfig" This allows the glx shared objects specific for nVidia to be loaded, rather than the generic glx stuff from /usr/lib64