Bug 691113

Summary: Turning on Desktop Effects causes crash. [GNOME 3]
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 Reporter: Jesse Ide <Jeshiideru>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: casualprogrammer, dimstar, forgotten_KjUTH09OjI, lestat.baeza, rrawson
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: 64bit   
OS: openSUSE 11.4   
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Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 701131    
Attachments: Output from compiz-manager

Description Jesse Ide 2011-05-02 00:20:50 UTC
If I open desktop effects and check "turn on desktop effects" then it immediately brings me to a black screen telling me that something has caused a crash and my only option is to log out. I've done this a few times so it's definitely turning on desktop effects that triggers it..
Comment 1 Sergio Pavez 2011-05-02 00:50:13 UTC
I have installed some things on the gnome 3 repository and when I reboot, the system crash and the only options is to close the session, but the problem persist.

I don't notice what packages I have installed, but I installed opensuse 11.4 gnome 3 again and not gonna install anything, just the upgrades and that’s all.

Please someone give a solution, this is really annoying.
Comment 2 Forgotten User KjUTH09OjI 2011-05-02 01:22:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> If I open desktop effects and check "turn on desktop effects" then it
> immediately brings me to a black screen telling me that something has caused a
> crash and my only option is to log out. I've done this a few times so it's
> definitely turning on desktop effects that triggers it..

By turning on the 'Desktop Effects' you mean, you start compiz. I don't believe you can run compiz and gnome-shell at the same it.
Comment 3 Casual J. Programmer 2011-06-20 15:35:48 UTC
I experience the same situation as comment #1, alas I'm stuck in a loop from there. I.e. I get logged out, presented with login screen, enter uid and pwd then forced logout etc. ad infinitum.

Where can I undo the "turn on desktop effects" switch ?
Comment 4 Casual J. Programmer 2011-06-20 15:37:13 UTC
Btw I'm on openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 1 (i586)
Comment 5 Casual J. Programmer 2011-06-20 17:03:02 UTC
crude, but it helps: rm -r $home/.cache
Comment 6 Casual J. Programmer 2011-06-21 08:59:04 UTC
As it appears #3 to #5 are not related to compiz, the sequence was just triggered by the forced log out. I will open a new bug regarding the loop.
Comment 7 Casual J. Programmer 2011-06-21 09:29:04 UTC
#3 to #6 see Bug 701199
Comment 8 Bruno Antunes 2011-06-23 14:55:25 UTC
Created attachment 436271 [details]
Output from compiz-manager

This happens allways. Attaching to the bug output from "compiz-manager" that causes same problem
Comment 9 Dominique Leuenberger 2011-06-23 15:29:50 UTC

Checking for Xgl: not present. 
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
No whitelisted driver found
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.

=> That does sounds like a bad idea.
rm ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager
Comment 10 Robert Rawson 2012-03-12 13:48:27 UTC
I am experiencing this same behavior as well on freshly installed OpenSuSE 12.1 on a 8Gb RAM Dell Latitude E6500. Enable desktop effects screen goes black then brings me to an oops screen where I have to log out and log back in again. Once I comeback sometimes I have a black background instead of default wallpaper.
Comment 11 Forgotten User KjUTH09OjI 2012-03-12 14:00:50 UTC
Compiz doesn't support GNOME3... Please take this subject upstream to Compiz, it's them who have to support GNOME3, though I find hard they will do it since only Unity related bugs seem to get fixed nowadays.
Comment 12 Dominique Leuenberger 2012-07-21 18:15:17 UTC
compiz and gnome 3 are just not compatible...