f19 hopeless in a KVM with VNC display

[Tom Horsley]

I just installed a couple of virtual fedora 19 machines
(32 and 64 bit), and I get a GDM login screen, click my
user and type my password, and gnome-shell starts using
94% of the CPU.

Possibly it is trying to use the software GL to render
the screen, but it will clearly never finish in a reasonable
amount of it. I logged in about 10 minutes ago and
I still have the remains of the login screen, no
gnome-shell rendered yet.

[poma]

On 03.07.2013 15:05, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  I just installed a couple of virtual fedora 19 machines
>  (32 and 64 bit), and I get a GDM login screen, click my
>  user and type my password, and gnome-shell starts using
>  94% of the CPU.
>  
>  Possibly it is trying to use the software GL to render
>  the screen, but it will clearly never finish in a reasonable
>  amount of it. I logged in about 10 minutes ago and
>  I still have the remains of the login screen, no
>  gnome-shell rendered yet. 
GDM 3.8.3 & DRISWRAST(swrast_dri.so)[1] >= VCPU x 2
You can't push an elephant with a toothpick. :)


poma


[1] http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html

[Andre Robatino]

Tom Horsley <horsley1953 <at> gmail.com> writes:
 
>  On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 13:10:35 +0000 (UTC)
>  Andre Robatino wrote:
>  
>  > This is due to gdm
>  > being broken, so you need to use a different display manager.
>  
>  Weird that it is a gdm bug even though gnome shell is what is
>  spinning forever. 
I initially reported the bug against gnome-shell for this reason. But GNOME
itself works fine if you log into it from a different DM.

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 13:10:35 +0000 (UTC)
Andre Robatino wrote:

>  This is due to gdm
>  being broken, so you need to use a different display manager. 
Weird that it is a gdm bug even though gnome shell is what is
spinning forever.

Anyway, my solution is to change the target to multiuser instead
of graphical (which is the way my virtual machine farm is
normally uses anyway once I get the initial install tweaked).

[Andre Robatino]

Tom Horsley <horsley1953 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>  I just installed a couple of virtual fedora 19 machines
>  (32 and 64 bit), and I get a GDM login screen, click my
>  user and type my password, and gnome-shell starts using
>  94% of the CPU. 
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=946964 . This is due to gdm
being broken, so you need to use a different display manager. Install a
different one (for example lightdm) and also system-switch-displaymanager to
change DM (you can also do it directly with systemctl commands).