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gnome-control-center package

gnome-appearance-properties won't start Compiz

Bug #206259 reported by Forlong on 2008-03-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #207957: Driver manager tries to install unneeded FGLRX driver for Compiz. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Compiz worked OOTB during and after the install.

After I disabled it in gnome-appearance-properties, I can't turn it back on.
It does work when running it via the terminal, though:

$ compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 02:00.0 0300: 1002:4152 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: Unable to parse XML metadata from file "ccp.xml"
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format

Unfortunately there is absolutely no error message whatsoever when starting gnome-appearance-properties. It just wants to install the proprietary fglrx driver without a reason why.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 25 00:19:40 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=C
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686

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Forlong (forlong) wrote on 2008-03-24:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-03-25:

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add your ~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of lspci -vvnn to your bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Forlong (forlong) wrote on 2008-03-25:

.xsession-errors Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain)

Thanks for the hint with ~/.xsession-errors
The problem was, it was flooded with messages from evolution and rhythmbox, so I rebooted and here's the error message:

(gnome-appearance-properties:8841): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_array_free: assertion `array' failed
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered

(gnome-appearance-properties:8841): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_array_free: assertion `array' failed
ERROR: Only administrators can use this function.

Full ~/.xsession-errors is attached. It also proves that the issue is only with gnome-appearance-properties because prior to the reboot, I set the gconfs key /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default to /usr/bin/compiz and it worked, I had Compiz on startup.
Only after I used gnome-appearance-properties to switch it off and back on, Compiz wouldn't work.

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Forlong (forlong) wrote on 2008-03-25:

Xorg.0.log Edit (67.0 KiB, text/plain)

Hm... I'm sorry, I can't reproduce the error message when rebooting with metacity set as default wm.

I adding the other files you requested.

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Forlong (forlong) wrote on 2008-03-25:

lspci Edit (9.8 KiB, text/plain)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-03-28:

the log has, Warn: Unable to parse XML metadata from file "ccp.xml", seems to be a compiz issue

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Incomplete → New
Changed in compiz:
importance:	Medium → Undecided
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote on 2008-03-28:

No, the problem is gnome-control-center checks with jockey if a restricted driver is available and if so assumes a restricted driver is required. This is true for nvidia but not for ati.