I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users.
What happens is if you have the nvidia-settings app installed, after a while the X server will no longer open any windows.
xlsclients will show a bunch of nvidia-settings connections. This number grows until you hit the limit and nothing else will open.
This did not happen with F29, so I expect it is something old and left over that is causing problems.
I will be reporting this to the rpmfusion people as soon as I have a login on their bugzilla.
On 05/15/2019 05:03 PM, Alan wrote:
I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users.
Rpmfusion has its own bugzilla at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ File a report there.
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 17:54 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/15/2019 05:03 PM, Alan wrote:
I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users.
Rpmfusion has its own bugzilla at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ Fi le a report there.
I have. Still no indication why it started to happen. Some people have not had a problem. The video configuration on this laptop is weird. (It has an Intel *and* nVIDIA chipset. Uses some sort of weird pasted together merge for it. That could be part of the problem.
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 17:54 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/15/2019 05:03 PM, Alan wrote:
I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users.
Rpmfusion has its own bugzilla at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ Fi le a report there.
After a bit of research I found the problem.
If you have nvidia-settings installed, and are using the nouveau driver and not the nvidia driver, it creates a bunch of connections to the X server. (Probably by crashing repeatedly.) This fills the table of connections until you get to the point where you can't open up another window.
If you are using the nouveau driver, just uninstall the nvidia-settings application. (You don't need it and it won't work anyways.) The maintainer for the rpmfusion repo is aware of it and working to fix the problem.
On 5/16/19 7:03 AM, Alan wrote:
I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users.
What happens is if you have the nvidia-settings app installed, after a while the X server will no longer open any windows.
xlsclients will show a bunch of nvidia-settings connections. This number grows until you hit the limit and nothing else will open.
This did not happen with F29, so I expect it is something old and left over that is causing problems.
I will be reporting this to the rpmfusion people as soon as I have a login on their bugzilla.
No problems here.
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