Bug 861831

Summary:

GNOME 3 Activities panel takes several minutes to appear after login on ATI FirePro V4800

Product:

[Fedora] Fedora

Reporter:

Adam Joseph Cook <acook>

Component:

xorg-x11-drv-ati

Assignee:

X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>

Status:

CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

QA Contact:

Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>

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unspecified

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rawhide

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acook, mdomonko, xgl-maint

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x86_64

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2014-06-18 08:03:21 UTC

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Dmesg output with 'drm.debug=14' kernel parameter set	none
All Xorg.*.log files directly after waiting for Activities panel to appear	none
All /var/log/gdm logs directly after waiting for Activities panel to appear	none

Description Adam Joseph Cook 2012-10-01 01:30:22 UTC

Created attachment 619600 [details]
Dmesg output with 'drm.debug=14' kernel parameter set

Description of problem:
This test was performed in response to the Fedora 18 Alpha Radeon Test Day.

After logging on to a GNOME session successfully, it takes at least 2 minutes (but no more than 3 minutes) for the GNOME 3 Activities panel to appear at the top of the desktop. Obviously, the desktop is unusable until this appears. When tested, this happens even after logging in from a fresh reboot or shutdown. No other users are logged in to the system.

I have only enough software on this system to perform the Radeon Test Day tests outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-09-26_Radeon

I have filed this against the ATI driver since I did not notice this issue on my NVIDIA system (http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_5eda5764-938d-45bb-a643-25f88855c697).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.0.0-0.6.20120910git7c7f27756.fc18.x86_64
gnome-shell-3.6.0-1.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:
Almost always. It happens 90% of the time by my estimation.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Startup system.
2. Login to GNOME desktop.
3. Wait 2 to 3 minutes for GNOME 3 Activities panel to appear.
  
Actual results:
The GNOME 3 Activities panel takes 2 to 3 minutes to appear after a user logs in to the desktop.

Expected results:
The GNOME 3 Activities panel should not take but a few seconds to appear after login assuming no other user-specified login tasks are being run.

Additional info:
* Smolt profile:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_93c84bef-cc7a-4308-b3d6-42916961926b

Not sure if it is related to this issue, but I filed another bug which highlights the very long time it takes this system to display the GDM login.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861755

Comment 1 Adam Joseph Cook 2012-10-01 01:31:24 UTC

Created attachment 619601 [details]
All Xorg.*.log files directly after waiting for Activities panel to appear

Comment 2 Adam Joseph Cook 2012-10-01 01:32:17 UTC

Created attachment 619603 [details]
All /var/log/gdm logs directly after waiting for Activities panel to appear

Comment 3 Martin 2013-06-11 15:46:28 UTC

Adam, are you able to reproduce it on latest Fedora 18 or 19?

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Comment 6 Michal Domonkos 2014-06-18 08:03:21 UTC

Does not happen to me on the very same card with F20 or RHEL7; there's no delay in loading the top panel after login.  Closing now.