On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 22:05 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Never have seen this with F15. Only have read about it.
Now it's hitting me badly everytime I boot F16 Alpha. Sometimes the
second login attempt succeeds, sometimes it doesn't and needs
a third attempt.
gnome-shell-3.1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
Where do I search for meaningful error messages?
Attached .xession-errors is flooded.
[...]
Updating the machine hasn't been easy and hasn't fixed the problem
either. Evolution dep breakage required me to update wildcard-groups of
packages or else I couldn't get xorg\* and other updates. Applying
the xorg\* updates required a reboot as a simple logout/login resulted
in severe screen corruption.
[...]
During the boot process (this is ATI Radeon graphics hardware), I often
lose the display and get a black screen with my monitor losing signal.
This has never happened with F14 and older, and only rarely with F15.
A workaround is to disable rhgb.
GNOME devs refer to the screen as the 'fail whale'. It shows up if any
key Shell component crashes in a loop. The key message to look for is
"respawning too quickly", thus:
(gnome-settings-daemon:1639): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: could not get output property for
DVI-0, rc: 15
(gnome-settings-daemon:1639): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string !=
NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:1639): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to enumerate directory
/home/misc16/.color/icc: No such file or directory
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream
returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
gnome-session[1328]: WARNING: App 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' respawning too
quickly
so that's your problem there, I think. alt-f4 should get rid of the fail
whale, and abrt-gui should be able to report the g-s-d crash.
You're not running glibc 2.14.90-6 , are you? It's known to be broken. I
ran it for a bit today and found g-s-d would crash.
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