Description of problem: Boot livecd (as liveusb) for tc2 alpha or nightly live image from 17th Feb 2011 machine boots but when trying to log in to gnome3 desktop, get a standard background, but no normal icon options. Box flashes up every few seconds for about a quarter of a second with mutter crash - too quick to read. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot live image to runlevel 3 2. login as liveuser 3. startx Actual results: Gnome3 starts to load but after putting on the striped background after several seconds a box flashes up at top right very briefly with mutter crash info (too fast to read) Expected results: Gnome3 desktop should start normally Additional info: Hardware is: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4e3c94ee-eb22-437e-987a-0b30fa637cba
Created attachment 479407 [details] /var/log/messages file after the crash
Created attachment 479408 [details] /var/log/Xorg.0.log after mutter crash
Possible duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677842
as you can see from the /var/log/messages , the abrt crash info is saved; you should be able to take a look at it in the directories indicated there and see if this is the same as 677842. thanks!
The /var/spool/abrt/ directory is there and there is a coredump file among the others - is there a way I can run abrt from the commandline to get at the dump file in text form - I had hoped abrt-cli was installed but it is not on the live image?
OK - after replugging the machine into the ether wire I could yum install abrt-cli into the running live system - am running "abrt-cli --report" now - but it may take a while to generate the usable report - if it finished before I have to get my beauty sleep I will upload the one report (of two) probably won't have time to generate both reports tonight.
I can't get at the dump now - abrt-cli proceeded a while and then there was a kernel panic with lots of "over core-pipe-limit" messages in the console, and the machine has now crashed irretrievably. So I have lost the crash dump files. I will try and repeat the crash tomorrow and see if I can get further info and survive generating the abrt output.
I managed to reproduce the bug and copied out the /var/spool/abrt/ file contents using a bash script: /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/analyzer CCpp /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/architecture i686 /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/cmdline mutter --mutter-plugins=libgnome-shell /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/component mutter /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/description Window and compositing manager based on Clutter Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager. While Mutter can be used stand-alone, it is primarily intended to be used as the display core of a larger system such as gnome-shell or Moblin. For this reason, Mutter is very extensible via plugins, which are used both to add fancy visual effects and to rework the window management behaviors to meet the needs of the environment. /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/executable /usr/bin/mutter /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/hostname localhost.localdomain /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/kernel 2.6.38-0.rc4.git0.2.fc15.i686 /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/package mutter-2.91.6-4.fc15 /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/reason Process /usr/bin/mutter was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/release Fedora release 15 (Rawhide) /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/time 1298112766 /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298112766-1818/uid 500 So this looks like the same bug as #677842
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 677842 ***