failed to create drawable

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:05:41 -0400, AJ (Adam) wrote:

> > Bottom of ~/.xsession-errors:
> > 
> > > Failed to play sound: File or data not found
> > >       JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Sat Oct 15 2011 09:00:52 GMT+0200 (CEST)
> > > failed to create drawable
> > 
> > After logging out and back in, desktop background was empty and black.
> > 
> > The warnings are not helpful. Which component "failed to create drawable"?
> 
> Almost certainly Mesa:
> 
> ~/mesa% grep 'failed to create' src/glx/*.c
> src/glx/dri2_glx.c:      ErrorMessageF("failed to create dri screen\n");
> src/glx/drisw_glx.c:      ErrorMessageF("failed to create dri screen\n");
> src/glx/glxcmds.c:         fprintf(stderr, "failed to create pixmap\n");
> src/glx/glx_pbuffer.c:      fprintf(stderr, "failed to create drawable\n");
> 
> But getting to that point almost always means something else has gone
> horribly wrong already.  What does 'glxinfo | grep renderer' say?

$ glxinfo |grep rend
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV620
    GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend, 

Forgot to mention that it is not the normal behaviour here, but only
happened when I logged out and back in a couple of times in quick
succession (i.e. with each session lasting not much more than 30 seconds).