Can not open Desktop effects on FC14

[Yunchi Wang]

Hello everyone. After I installed the updates last night, I can not open
Desktop Effects. Exactly when I choose System->Preferences->Desktop Effects,
there is no window came out. Prior to this, everything is OK. I have
installed graphics driver. My notebook is Acer 4741G. Thanks!

[JB]

Yunchi Wang <wyunchilovechina <at> gmail.com> writes:
>

$ strace -o desktop-effects.out desktop-effects
and analyse the output (where it fails).

Additional info:
$ yum list desktop-effects
Installed Packages
desktop-effects.i686  0.8.7-2.fc14  @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201010031452.i386
$ yum deplist desktop-effects

General system fix/cleanup:
# yum distro-sync

JB

[Yunchi Wang]

Thanks for helping me. But after I inupt command "strace -o
desktop-effects.out desktop-effects", the output is:
Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'desktop-effects' received an X Window System
error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 141 error_code 3 request_code 138 minor_code 4)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
aborting...
Does it mean that my X Window System is down? How can I repair it?

2011/2/24 JB
> Yunchi Wang <wyunchilovechina <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
>
> $ strace -o desktop-effects.out desktop-effects
> and analyse the output (where it fails).
>
> Additional info:
> $ yum list desktop-effects
> Installed Packages
> desktop-effects.i686  0.8.7-2.fc14
>  @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201010031452.i386
> $ yum deplist desktop-effects
>
> General system fix/cleanup:
> # yum distro-sync
>
> JB
>
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[JB]

Yunchi Wang <wyunchilovechina <at> gmail.com> writes:
> ...

Make sure package ABRT is installed.
$ yum info abrt 
$ yum list abrt

Run your program from menu System-Preferences-Desktop Effects or from xterm.
This should produce a dump (backtrace) that will be filed automatically, or if
not then you can extract it manually from ABRT with copy/paste (look for
backtrace, in particular):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

There are already desktop-effects related bugs (you can browse them by key word
desktop-effects, if you want to get familiar with how to file a bug, etc).

Please attach that desktop-effects.out file to the assigned Bug Report #  as
well - it may help.

JB

[Yunchi Wang]

I am sorry. I was busy for work these days, so I reinstalled fedora......I
think it will happen if I install some updates......Thanks all the way!

2011/2/24 JB
> Yunchi Wang <wyunchilovechina <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > ...
>
> Make sure package ABRT is installed.
> $ yum info abrt
> $ yum list abrt
>
> Run your program from menu System-Preferences-Desktop Effects or from
> xterm.
> This should produce a dump (backtrace) that will be filed automatically, or
> if
> not then you can extract it manually from ABRT with copy/paste (look for
> backtrace, in particular):
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
>
> There are already desktop-effects related bugs (you can browse them by key
> word
> desktop-effects, if you want to get familiar with how to file a bug, etc).
>
> Please attach that desktop-effects.out file to the assigned Bug Report #
>  as
> well - it may help.
>
> JB
>
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