Bug 461459 - White screen on login to compiz-managed session
Summary: White screen on login to compiz-managed session
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: compiz
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-08 08:34 UTC by Matěj Cepl
Modified: 2018-04-11 16:55 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-07-14 17:09:49 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
core dump (652.57 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-09-08 08:34 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details
backtrace from the core file (493 bytes, text/plain)
2008-09-08 08:36 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details
/etc/X11/xorg.conf (774 bytes, text/plain)
2008-09-08 08:36 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details
/var/log/Xorg.0.log (73.43 KB, text/plain)
2008-09-08 08:36 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details

Description Matěj Cepl 2008-09-08 08:34:52 UTC
Created attachment 316053 [details]
core dump

Description of problem:
After login to the session with desktop-effects on, I get only white screen all over whole screen. When blindly typing desktop-effects and pressing space, I get perfectly working Gnome (actually, the very session I am in just now).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
this is what I've got from debuginfo-install:
compiz-debuginfo-0.7.6-3.fc9.1.i386
dbus-debuginfo-1.2.1-2.fc9.i386
fuse-debuginfo-2.7.3-3.fc9.i386
glibc-debuginfo-2.8-8.i686
libICE-debuginfo-1.0.4-3.fc9.i386
libSM-debuginfo-1.1.0-1.fc9.i386
libxcb-debuginfo-1.1-4.fc9.i386
libXcomposite-debuginfo-0.4.0-4.fc9.i386
libXdamage-debuginfo-1.1.1-4.fc9.i386
libXext-debuginfo-1.0.4-1.fc9.i386
libXfixes-debuginfo-4.0.3-3.fc9.i386
libXinerama-debuginfo-1.0.3-1.fc9.i386
libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.1-1.fc9.i386
libXrandr-debuginfo-1.2.2-3.fc9.i386
libXrender-debuginfo-0.9.4-3.fc9.i386
libxslt-debuginfo-1.1.24-2.fc9.i386
libX11-debuginfo-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386
mesa-debuginfo-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386
startup-notification-debuginfo-0.9-4.fc9.i386
zlib-debuginfo-1.2.3-18.fc9.i386
2:libpng-debuginfo-1.2.29-1.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
100% (tried two times, plus it happened to me last time I tried copmiz)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enable desktop-effects
2.logout (or reboot)
3.login
  
Actual results:
white screen

Expected results:
no white screen

Additional info:
I have also found a nice core dump, so I am adding some analysis of that.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-08 08:36:15 UTC
Created attachment 316054 [details]
backtrace from the core file

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-08 08:36:35 UTC
Created attachment 316055 [details]
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-08 08:36:58 UTC
Created attachment 316056 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-08 08:37:20 UTC
Comment on attachment 316054 [details]
backtrace from the core file

Quite unsatisfactory, I know.

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-08 08:39:13 UTC
Wondering if it has anything to do with bug 254098

Comment 6 Jesse Brandeburg 2008-09-27 18:24:07 UTC
I see the same thing running rawhide modesetting kernel, 2.6.27-0.352.rc7.git1.fc10.i686

I'm running mostly F9 bits but am about to do a rawhide full upgrade.

I have an IBM/Lenovo T43 laptop with radeon graphics model 2668-nu3

desktop effects mostly worked before the modesetting kernel upgrade with yum (from rawhide)

Comment 7 Warren Togami 2008-11-27 19:09:49 UTC
compiz does this whenever you try to run it on a system not capable of composite.  Ubuntu's compiz has extremely ugly non-upstream wrappers to detect and fallback from this condition.

Comment 8 Gabriel Somlo 2009-01-02 01:31:13 UTC
re: comment #7: mcepl's Xorg.0.log contains the following:

(II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
(II)         Solid
(II)         Copy
(II)         Composite (RENDER acceleration)

Does this not mean his system *is* capable of composite ? Otherwise, what command would one need to execute to unequivocally answer that question ?

I'm getting the same behavior on Fedora 10, on both a ppc PowerBook with a radeon card
(0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10])
which similarly seems to support composite:

(II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
(II)         Solid
(II)         Copy
(II)         Composite (RENDER acceleration)
(II)         UploadToScreen
(II)         DownloadFromScreen
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled

I'm also getting the exact same behavior on a Santa Rosa macbook pro with an nvidia card
(01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1))
which does not seem to support composite, if the Xorg.0.log is to be believed (using the nv driver).

On both machines, compiz turns the screen white, the cursor changes shape depending over which (invisible) window it hovers, and if I move the mouse to the upper-right corner I see the expose-like behavior happening, but windows are empty except for an icon in one of the lower corners. Clicking on one window moves them back in place, and they all turn completely white again.

I find it confusing that the presence or absence of Composite support doesn't seem to make a difference.

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Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 17:09:49 UTC
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