Your message dated Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:25:40 +0300
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#534672: System not recoverable
has caused the Debian Bug report #534340,
regarding Additional installation of xfce results in autologoff of sessions
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Package: xfce4
Version: 4.6.1.1
Severity: important
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I installed xfce4 just to test it.
The installation works, but now i am kicked out of KDE or Gnome sessions
automatically after some time.
I have no idea how this can happen, you can work or not, the session is just
being
closed and you are back on the login screen.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored:
LC_ALL
set to de_DE)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xfce4 depends on:
ii gtk2-engines-xfce 2.6.0-2 A GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce
ii orage 4.6.1-1 Calendar for Xfce Desktop Environm
ii thunar 1.0.1-1 File Manager for Xfce
ii thunar-volman 0.3.80-2 Thunar extension for volumes manag
ii xfce4-appfinder 4.6.1-1 Application finder for the Xfce4 D
ii xfce4-mixer 4.6.1-2 Xfce mixer application
ii xfce4-panel 4.6.1-2 The Xfce4 desktop environment pane
ii xfce4-session 4.6.1-1 Xfce4 Session Manager
ii xfce4-settings 4.6.1-1 graphical application for managing
ii xfce4-utils 4.6.1-1 Various tools for Xfce
ii xfconf 4.6.1-1 utilities for managing settings in
ii xfdesktop4 4.6.1-1 xfce desktop background, icons and
ii xfwm4 4.6.1-1 window manager of the Xfce project
Versions of packages xfce4 recommends:
ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto
ii tango-icon-theme 0.8.90-2 Tango icon theme
ii xfprint4 4.6.1-1 Printer GUI for Xfce4
ii xorg 1:7.3+18 X.Org X Window System
xfce4 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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2009/6/26 <[email protected]>:
> Before i am killing the system i checked some other logs.
> Now i found in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "1680x1050 +0+0; 1280x1024 +0+0; 1024x768
> +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5200 at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 131072 kBytes
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.34.20.87.00
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5200 at PCI:1:0:0:
> (--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Hitachi X91D DVI (DFP-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0): 350.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
> (--) NVIDIA(0): TV encoder: NVIDIA
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1680x1050+0+0"; removing.
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
> (II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x1024+0+0"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): "1024x768+0+0"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): "800x600+0+0"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): "640x480+0+0"
>
> So to run Debian with KDE4 you must have a running GLX?
No, KDE4 does not require GLX. However, the KDE window manager checks
if X is capable of doing GLX stuff and in this process it uses some GL
functions.
The problem in your case is that you have installed the nvidia drivers
from the nvidia installer (downloaded from nvidia.com) and you
installed them without knowing that this installer overwrites files
from Xorg/mesa. Then you installed xfce (as stated in bug 534340) and
that probably also caused an upgrade of Xorg/mesa, which overwrote the
files of the nvidia driver again. This makes the nvidia driver to
crash when some application attempts to use GLX stuff. As a result,
you are kicked out of KDE and GNOME sessions because they both have
compositing-aware window managers and try to find and use
compositing/GLX on login if it is available.
> I tried to reinstall the NVIDIA-driver and that was working.
See? ;) Reinstalling the nvidia drivers overwrites the files again
and it works. So, please switch to using the nvidia-glx package
instead of the nvidia installer or make use of the nvidia installer at
your own risk and taking care to reinstall the driver whenever
something from xorg or mesa is upgraded.
> But now the system does not reboot any more.
> It is hanging at starting NFS
That might be an issue either with NFS or your network connection, but
completely unrelated to the nvidia drivers and/or KDE/GNOME/XFCE.
> I give up now ...
In the future, please refrain from opening bug reports (especially
ones with serious or grave severity) if you don't have enough
knowledge of what is going on. There are user support mailing lists
and forums where you can ask to find a solution to your problem. You
should only file bug reports when you are almost sure that your
problem is a bug in a specific package.
I am closing all three reports that you opened about this "bug":
534672, 534340 and 534421. I hope you didn't file any more bugs about
this in gnome packages... If you did, please close them.
Thanks,
George
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