Gnome stopped working ... Beryl not displaying [SOLVED]

Kisil · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

I "emerge --sync"-ed and updated a couple of fairly trivial-looking X libraries (sorry, I don't remember what they are.) Now Gnome no longer works - it starts up, but menus and applications don't show up on screen. Clicking a shortcut on the gnome-panel shows the application in the taskbar, and Beryl pops up a preview window, but the actual window doesn't get rendered.

My first hunch is that it's beryl-related somehow, but I can't figure out how to disable beryl from starting up without using the GUI session manager (short of emerge -C, since I don't want to recompile it later).

Any advice or thoughts on what else could be wrong?

I recompiled most of gnome and X and it didn't make any difference. Fluxbox also still works fine.

[edit]changed title to reflect post below; the problem is Beryl[/edit]
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Pseudonimo · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 393

Did you do revdep-rebuild? about stopping beryl, remove it from your config (don't remember the address, but the gentoo xeffects site I think it had it).

Kisil · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

I'll run revdep-rebuild and post again if that helps.

I'll also google for the config file, though I just remembered, I started a "failsafe session," where it supposedly doesn't run your startups, and that was broken too.. so that would indicate the problem's not beryl.
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Kisil · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

revdep-rebuild found some things. Beryl crashed loading Gnome once, so I was able to get into gnome and remove it from startup; now gnome works. Beryl was the problem.

Now the next question, why would beryl just not display my windows? Is this a bug or a configuration problem?
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stgreek · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject:

The latest update of libXProto or one of those things breaks compositing. Just reemerge xorg-server and you should be fine.
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Pseudonimo · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 393

if that doesn't work try

gzunk · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject:

vectorsigma · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

Having the same problem here using KDE. X crashes on start up and starting Beryl manually causes windows to disappear. Turns out I updated libXcomposite and a bunch of other libraries. I'll see if recompiling xorg does the trick.

Kisil · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

Recompiling xorg-server worked for me. Thanks for all the help.

Now if I could only get Heliodor to work..
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diegoto · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 305 Location: Argentina

i have the same problem, and reemerge xorg-server but not work!!.. KDE Crash when startup, freezee my PC !

Help me!
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Kisil · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

Have you tried everything suggested above? "revdep-rebuild" at least fixed some things for me; I'm not sure whether they were related, but best to be safe..
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mastermind456 · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 10

Spent over five hours straight debugging this. Re-emerging xorg-server did the job. Thx again, Gentoo!
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