Bug 584015 - Problem when loading gdm or gnome in Acer Aspire One
Summary: Problem when loading gdm or gnome in Acer Aspire One
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-server
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-04-20 14:18 UTC by Matias Kreder
Modified: 2010-11-04 01:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-11-04 01:55:16 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
gnome-session --debug output (3.37 MB, application/octet-stream)
2010-04-20 14:18 UTC, Matias Kreder
no flags Details
lspci output (1.58 KB, text/plain)
2010-04-20 15:39 UTC, Matias Kreder
no flags Details
xrandr output (629 bytes, text/plain)
2010-04-20 15:40 UTC, Matias Kreder
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log when runing GDM and GNOME (6.64 MB, application/octet-stream)
2010-04-20 18:40 UTC, Matias Kreder
no flags Details
dmesg output (39.12 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-04-20 18:45 UTC, Matias Kreder
no flags Details
gnome-session --debug output withoutvtswitching (49.32 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-04-20 18:48 UTC, Matias Kreder
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Launchpad 484186 0 None None None Never

Description Matias Kreder 2010-04-20 14:18:30 UTC
Created attachment 407826 [details]
gnome-session --debug output

Description of problem:

When I turn on my computer with GDM or when I start GNOME, I'm experiencing a really weird behaviour, for example when I start GNOME, when the screen is empty, without icons, the mouse pointer is very slow, and the computer is stuck there. In order to proceed with the GNOME startup, I have to move to a virtual terminal (tty3 for example) and then get back to X, then is when GNOME continue with the startup.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-session-xsession-2.28.0-2.fc12.x86_64
gnome-session-2.28.0-2.fc12.x86_64

 
How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 12 (x86_64)
2. Try to start GNOME or GDM
3.
  
Actual results:
Computer is stuck with the mouse very slow until switching to a VT. It's very annoying 

Expected results:
Computer starting without issues.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matias Kreder 2010-04-20 15:22:22 UTC
I've another but too, that it has to do with this, apparently. Using GNOME after resuming from suspend I see a lot of notifications like:

Could not switch the monitor configuration 
could not set the configuration to crtc 64

It repeats a lot of times, and the screen is completely slow and impossible to use, I had to restart X to solve the issue.

These errors appears in GDM too, sometimes.

Comment 2 Matias Kreder 2010-04-20 15:23:51 UTC
found a similar bug in launchpad

Comment 3 Matias Kreder 2010-04-20 15:39:49 UTC
Created attachment 407856 [details]
lspci output

Comment 4 Matias Kreder 2010-04-20 15:40:29 UTC
Created attachment 407857 [details]
xrandr output

Comment 5 Matias Kreder 2010-04-20 18:40:13 UTC
Created attachment 407891 [details]
Xorg.0.log when runing GDM and GNOME

Comment 6 Matias Kreder 2010-04-20 18:45:20 UTC
Created attachment 407893 [details]
dmesg output

Comment 7 Matias Kreder 2010-04-20 18:48:17 UTC
Created attachment 407896 [details]
gnome-session --debug output withoutvtswitching

it was 5/10 minutes, it didn't start, I did ctrl+c to stop the gnome-session command, and then ctrl+alt+del to get back to KDM (I was using KDM because it has the failsafe option)

gnome doesn't start if I don't switch to a VT and then I get back to X

Comment 8 Jeff Raber 2010-04-21 00:52:31 UTC
From #fedora-bugzappers:
ajax: that's not a bug.
ajax: oh wait, it totally is.
ajax: just seeing lots of edid reads on its own isn't though
ajax: i know what that is though, and it's infuriating.
ajax: we ask for hotplug interrupts on outputs you don't have and then the electronics to do that gets confused.
ajax: and we can't just disable outputs you don't have because if we _do_ then some people's docks don't work.
jraber: ajax: Is that Gnome specific?  Is there a workaround?  
ajax: it's not, and there's not.
ajax: it's gnome-specific in that listening for RANDR output status change events and actually doing something with them causes a busy loop - we rescan output status, this makes the kernel generate more "change" events, we get them and rescan...
ajax: but any other DE doing that, would do that.

Reassigning to xorg-x11 as that seems to be closer to the root cause than gnome-session

Comment 9 Adam Williamson 2010-04-27 21:39:02 UTC
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Comment 10 Adam Williamson 2010-04-27 21:42:32 UTC
jraber - for the future, can you please avoid assigning bugs to the component xorg-x11 ? it's not a 'real' X component so neither Bugzappers nor X devel team monitor it very closely. It's best to use the xorg-x11-drv-* components or xorg-x11-server. Thanks!

Comment 11 Matias Kreder 2010-05-08 13:22:40 UTC
fortunately this bug is *fixed* for me after upgrading to Fedora 13:

[matias@flame ~]$ rpm -qa | grep gnome-session
gnome-session-xsession-2.30.0-1.fc13.x86_64
gnome-session-2.30.0-1.fc13.x86_64
[matias@flame ~]$ rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-server
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-16.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.0-12.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.8.0-12.fc13.x86_64

Comment 12 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 16:42:46 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 12 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 12.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
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Comment 13 Jeff Raber 2010-11-04 01:55:16 UTC
Marking as CLOSED/CURRENTRELEASE per comment 11



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