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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:00 am    Post subject: compiz crashing system after update [solved] Reply with quote

After doing an emerge -uav world, compiz crashes my entire system. gnome starts to load, but as soon as compiz tries to start I get the gray (checkerboard?) with hourglass and it is frozen. Without compiz everything loads fine. I tried downgrading compiz to the last version but this did not fix it. Everything worked awesome until this.

What log files should I post? I didn't see anything interesting in Xorg.0.log.old or Xorg.93.log.old except for this line:

Code:
(EE) Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-93.xkm


Here are my versions:
compiz-quinnstorm-0.0.13.12_p20060710
libdrm-2.1_alpha20060610
xf86-video-ati-6.6.1_p20060625
xgl-0.0.1_p20060619-r2
cairo-1.2.0
pango-1.12.3
xorg-x11-7.1

I am at revision 297 (xgl-coffee)

Thank's for any help


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like a number of people are having this issue with varying symptoms, is there a known fix yet?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I removed all of the plugins from gconf editor and it still crashes when I try to load compiz.. Here is the script I am loading to use it. Im not sure why it would be the problem (it has always worked before) but here it is anyway

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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib compiz --replace gconf &
gnome-window-decorator &


I also updated my kernel to 2.6.17-gentoo-r2 and this did not help
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

redbeardmcg, by system do you mean gentoo crashes, or X. If X, that is not your system.

What video cards do you all have, which drivers do you use, what was the last working version, are you sure you are completely up to date, is your opengl set to ati or nvidia if you have either card, have you been able to get any type of output from starting compiz manually?

If you can answer some of these questions, it might be more helpful.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When this happens, the entire system crashes. I cannot kill X using ctrl alt bkspc, nor can I switch terms, or do anything but cold reboot the system. I have an ati radeon 9200 using the open source driver. Opengl is set to the mesa opengl (i believe, can post output of glxinfo if you would like). I have not changed the xorg.conf since I had xgl + compiz working, and it was working flawlessly with the open source radeon drv. The xgl-coffee overlay is completely up to date and I have completely updated my system. When I launch xgl without compiz the computer does not freeze, and when i launch compiz manually it dies before any useful output occurs. This is essentially how I found out it was compiz causing the problem and not Xgl.

Thanks for your reply
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really have no idea. I haven't heard of compiz crashing the system like that. I'll keep my eyes out on compiz.net for similar problems.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for the help. To clarify, I am using the xorg-xll opengl (which I believe is the same as it was before)
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It works now, I ran etc-update to update my x server config (not xorg.conf) and installed all of the updates in xgl-coffee for the last few days. I still don't know what was the culprit, but it works so I am happy :D
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Happy it's back to normal for you.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks :)

And thanks for maintaining such a great overlay
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

redbeardmcg, could you tell me what apps exactly in the xgl-coffee overlay you used, along with the versions ? I get this same error
Code:
(EE) Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-93.xkm
and I haven't been lucky enough to find any solution yet :( ...

Thanks in advance
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i also have this problem
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi:

I am having exactly this problem
redbeardmcg wrote:

When this happens, the entire system crashes. I cannot kill X using ctrl alt bkspc, nor can I switch terms, or do anything but cold reboot the system. I have an ati radeon 9200 using the open source driver. Opengl is set to the mesa opengl (i believe, can post output of glxinfo if you would like). I have not changed the xorg.conf since I had xgl + compiz working, and it was working flawlessly with the open source radeon drv. The xgl-coffee overlay is completely up to date and I have completely updated my system. When I launch xgl without compiz the computer does not freeze, and when i launch compiz manually it dies before any useful output occurs. This is essentially how I found out it was compiz causing the problem and not Xgl.


but i have a 965gm intel. I had it working, but then i upgrade my system and compiz didnt work at all since there is a bug with mesa so i decided to downgrade but then i got the problem above which kinda sucks. I will try to do some experiments and i ll post my results
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