Bug 462856 – kde cannot login after selecting enable desktop effects kde-settings-4.0-25.fc9.noarch

Bug 462856 - kde cannot login after selecting enable desktop effects kde-settings-4.0-25.fc9.noarch

Summary:	kde cannot login after selecting enable desktop effects kde-settings-4.0-25.f...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	kdebase-workspace (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Ngo Than
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Reported:	2008-09-19 08:04 EDT by vikram goyal
Modified:	2008-09-25 19:33 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-09-25 19:33:40 EDT
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The whole dot .kde dir (549.42 KB, application/x-bzip-compressed-tar) 2008-09-19 08:04 EDT, vikram goyal	no flags	Details
debug output (7.02 KB, text/plain) 2008-09-19 08:06 EDT, vikram goyal	no flags	Details
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Description vikram goyal 2008-09-19 08:04:10 EDT

Created attachment 317185 [details]
The whole dot .kde dir

Description of problem:
Selecting 'enable desktop effects' from System-Settings -> Desktop crashed kde session and could not be started again

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-4.1.0-1.fc9.1.i386
kdebase-workspace-4.1.0-8.fc9.i386
kdebase-runtime-4.1.0-3.fc9.i386
kde-settings-4.0-25.fc9.noarch

How reproducible:
as described in description

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Comment 1 vikram goyal 2008-09-19 08:06:51 EDT

Created attachment 317186 [details]
debug output

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2008-09-19 08:46:22 EDT

Simply put, your video hw/driver apparently doesn't support compositing.  kwin is *supposed* fail more gracefully than this, however.

kde-4.1.1 has a few fixes that may help here.

In the meantime, you can manually disable compositing (desktop effects), but editing ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc, and change

[Compositing]
Enabled=true

to

[Compositing]
Enabled=false

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2008-09-19 12:36:54 EDT

AFAIK, the test to check if compositing is actually working is not in 4.1.x, only 4.2. OpenSUSE has a backport we could snatch though. Note that 4.2 and OpenSUSE's backport also enable compositing by default (because it has this self-test and automatic fallback now), this is something I don't think is a good idea in an F9 update at this point.

Comment 4 Steven M. Parrish 2008-09-25 19:33:40 EDT

Closing this as NOTABUG since its a hardware issue.

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