System freeze when logging into GNOME with compiz enabled

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:14 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> 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

I just had this problem again so I re-opened the bug.

tjb
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