System freeze when logging into GNOME with compiz enabled
Matthias Saou
thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Tue Sep 5 13:31:33 UTC 2006
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
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