Bug 748814 - gnome session (gnome 3/classic gnome with compiz) fails to start upon login (Fedora 16 RC 10)
Summary: gnome session (gnome 3/classic gnome with compiz) fails to start upon login ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-25 12:56 UTC by Martin Steffen
Modified: 2013-02-14 02:08 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-14 02:08:32 UTC
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Description Martin Steffen 2011-10-25 12:56:53 UTC
Description of problem: gnome 3 session /gnome classic with Compiz session fails to start





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Operating system:  Fedora 3.1.0.0-rc10.git0.1.fc16.i686.PAE
with fairly fresh yum update. 

Harwdware: Dell Laptop (Latitude E4300), the problem was _not_ present
before upgrading to Fedora 16, i.e., Fedora 15 worked well (and earlier
versions)

Note: the problem was there also with rc9 and rc8.


Symptoms: when requested to login, I have the choice between three X-sessions
	  1) Gnome 3
          2) Classic Gnome with Compiz
          3) Fluxbox


For 1) or 2), when logging in, the X-session tries to start (i.e.,
displaying the icons etc), however, display  ``flickers'' for some seconds, as if
it had trouble to synchronize with the screen refresh rates or similar. Then, the message comes:


   "Oh no! Somrthig has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system can't recover. Please	
    log out..."

The problem does not occur when using the 3) Fluxbox window manages.

Comment 1 leigh scott 2011-10-25 15:19:43 UTC
Not a compiz bug as it happens in gnome 3 as well.

Comment 2 Martin Steffen 2011-10-27 09:27:16 UTC
ok, thnaks, I filed it as compiz, because "gnome 3 " was not available as category, only specific gnome applications I found. I will try again under some other category.

Comment 3 leigh scott 2011-10-27 10:33:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> ok, thnaks, I filed it as compiz, because "gnome 3 " was not available as
> category, only specific gnome applications I found. I will try again under some
> other category.

Try filing it against gnome-shell.
Did you check /var/log/messages for errors or selinux denials?

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2013-02-14 02:08:36 UTC
Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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