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gcompris package

GCompris Fullscreen mode causes gnome-session to end with vesa driver

Bug #67360 reported by Jonathan Carter
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gcompris (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Oliver Grawert
xserver-xorg-video-vesa (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gcompris

On the Edubuntu 17 October daily build, GCompris causes a horrible crash that logs me out of my Gnome session.

When using the -x switch, GCompris doesn't switch display resolution, and works as expected.

My display card is a S3 Unichrome card (currently unsupported by Ubuntu), so it uses a vesa driver, which I suspect might be part of the problem.

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote : Re: GCompris Fullscreen mode causes gnome-session to end

with the -x option you disable access to the xrandr extension, its likely that this isnt available in vesa

Changed in gcompris:
assignee: nobody → ogra
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Pete Savage (petesavage) wrote :

GCompris is fine with the ATI driver

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Pete Savage (petesavage) wrote :

Output of terminal session starting gcompris

** (gcompris:5247): WARNING **: config_file /home/pete/.gcompris/gcompris.conf
** Message: gcompris_set_locale ''

** (gcompris:5247): WARNING **: Requested locale '' got 'en_GB.UTF-8'
open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory
__main__:1: DeprecationWarning: Module gnome.canvas is deprecated; please import gnomecanvas instead
Opened audio at 44100 Hz 16 bit stereo, 2048 bytes audio buffer
The application 'gcompris' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.

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Pete Savage (petesavage) wrote :

Result of an strace on the main X process

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Jonathan Carter (jonathan) wrote :

This is also a regression from Dapper. In Dapper, GCompris used to work fine with the vesa driver.

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

there is a duplicate, and <livingdaylight> on IRC had the problem

Changed in gcompris:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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LaserJock (laserjock) wrote :

gcompris no longer uses randr and gcompris author says it is vesa rather than gcompris bug so I'm closing the gcompris task

Changed in gcompris:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Matthew Woerly (nattgew) wrote :

Is this still present?

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

Jonathan, is this bug still occurring in Hardy, or can I close it?

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William Witt (william-witt-family) wrote :

It appears to work full screen with Nvidia drivers and xinerama turned on here. This was the problem that I was having. I opened a bug at the time and it was marked as a dupe of this one.

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

unamanic reports that the bug's no longer reproducible, so closing as fix released

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-vesa:
status: New → Fix Released
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