System freeze when logging into GNOME with compiz enabled

Thomas J. Baker tjb at unh.edu
Tue Sep 5 14:14:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:31 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Thomas J. Baker wrote :
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 13:35 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > > 
> > > Since this week-end at least (I hadn't rebooted my laptop in a few
> > > days), after booting my laptop and logging in through gdm, I see the
> > > GNOME slash screen, then I see lots of disk I/O going on for a few
> > > seconds, but then once the splash screen went away but before anything
> > > else appears on the screen (no wallpaper, no panel, only the solid blue
> > > background)... complete freeze. Impossible to switch back to a console
> > > or even ping the system.
> > > 
> [...]
> > 
> > I experienced the exact same problem on my Radeon RV240. After turning
> > off and turning back on compiz like you did, the problem is gone,
> > replaced by an equally puzzling one: the Workspace Switcher applet
> > displays tiny versions of each desktop, probably about one quarter the
> > size it should be.
> 
> Yeah, I've been seeing that too for a few days. I've added a comment :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201634
> 
> Seems like the workspace switcher integration is somewhat a work in
> progress and still needs a lot to be done.
> 
> Matthias
> 

I had opened a bug about the freezing here but closed it when it seemed
to be fixed. 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204810

tjb
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