From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: Openoffice.org won't start at all when dualhead is enabled using xinerama with fglrx driver. Launching the software from commandline (openoffice.org -writer) doesn't give any output, the cursor just stalls. I'm using fglrx driver with a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 1st monitor: 1280x800, 2nd monitor: 1280x1024 (attached xorg.conf) ati or radeonhd drivers don't have this problem, but apparently they have problems with dual head with different resolutions (or, at least, I can't make it work). See for reference: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=275392 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.11.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.setup a dual head system with xinerama (with different resolutions? not sure) using fglrx driver (see attached xorg.conf) 2.open openoffice.org Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info:
Created attachment 296139 [details] xorg.conf xorg.conf for dual-head setup with fglrx/xinerama
*** Bug 435212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
fglrx a proprietary driver that's not supplied by fedora, so you're mostly out of luck here unless it can be reproduced with a non-proprietary driver. That said I suggest you attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and your /var/log/messages and the output of /usr/sbin/sestatus e.g. there might be a problem with your fglrx and selinux for example.
Created attachment 296295 [details] Xorg log file Attached Xorg.0.log file. Can't seem to find any /var/log/messages file on my computer. sestatus outputs SELinux status: enabled SELinuxfs mount: /selinux Current mode: permissive Mode from config file: permissive Policy version: 21 Policy from config file: seedit
I managed to find a temporary solution to the problem. 1) start a second X session with Xephyr Xephyr -xinerama -ac -screen 1280x1024 :2 2) Start a KDE desktop inside (I'm running gnome and for whatever reason I can't seem to start another Gnome desktop) with: DISPLAY=:2 startkde 3) Open OO in KDE, it works! I guess the opposite would also work (login with KDE, open Gnome in Xephyr), but haven't tried.
Your logs are riddled with loads of... (EE) fglrx(1): [DRI] Locking deadlock. Already locked with context 153779292, trying to lock with context 24. (EE) fglrx(1): [DRI] Unlocking inconsistency: Context 153779292 trying to unlock lock held by context 24 which looks pretty bad, perhaps googling for that or checking the bugzilla/forums of the vendor which provides this 3rd party driver might be the best thing to do. As a possibility its possibly worth giving > export SAL_NOOPENGL=1 > oowriter a go to see if disabling using opengl works around the immediate problem
I strongly suspect that this is the driver, not OOo.