On 04/02/2016 04:16 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 02/04/16 00:37, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I finally got to the source of the gnome bug in 7.2
>> It was indeed, as I previously mentioned, llvm related. I made a package
>> for a newer version of mesa-private-llvm (3.7.1 vs 3.6.2) and rebuild
>> mesa-10.6 to build against the new llvm version. Both sets of packages
>> can be found in the extra repo of 7.2
>> (http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/el7-devel/el7/7.2/extra/)
>>
>
> Awesome. How did you pin it down to broken llvm? This kind of bug that
> is one step removed can be really hard to get to the bottom of.

slowly updating, until I had a set of updates left which would trigger
the bug. At this point I noticed that just updating
mesa-dri-drivers/mesa-private-llvm would also trigger the bug. Which
made mesa suspect.
After some googling I found this rhel 7.2 for arm release notes:
https://access.redhat.com/sites/default/files/attachments/red_hat_enterprise_linux_server_for_arm-7.2_beta-release_notes-en-us.pdf

with this text:
15.1. OpenGL applications fail to start
Any program which requires OpenGL, including GNOME Shell, will fail to
work due to a bug in the mesa-private-llvm package. The only way to run
a graphical interface (GNOME) on the 64-bit ARM architecture is
currently to connect to the system remotely using a VNC client.

>From here on I did test the new gnome over VNC, which worked. I could
not find a specific bug report or patch for the issue we were seeing, so
I just tried the next version of llvm.

I guess the work around is short-lived as I saw requests for gnome 3.18
and llvm 3.8 on redhat's bugzilla.

Jacco
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