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[feisty] latest update breaks beryl

Bug #87081 reported by Brian Neltner
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I have beryl installed to be the default window manager on two computers, both installed by using the instructions in the howto (http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_AIGLX). One is using an ATI Radeon 7500 with the ati driver and aiglx, the other is using an Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML with the i810 driver and aiglx.

Last night after doing a dist-upgrade, both computers freeze upon starting beryl. Restarting the window manager causes the icons that should have started flashing briefly before closing (so when the window manager is turned off, everything returns to normal.

Starting with the default metacity window manager worked fine.

Starting beryl from the command line after starting with metacity caused the windows to freeze, but ctl-C-ing the process returned the system to a working state (although metacity then needed to be restarted).

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Kevin Kubasik (kkubasik) wrote :

Yeah, same issue, when I get a chance I wanna try to get something more precise, since the inderect accelleration is still taking place. It might be as simple as recompiling against the newer libs...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. That package is not shipped with Ubuntu, do you get a problem with one official package?

Changed in xorg:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

I had the same issue. The upgrade that broke Beryl was libxrandr2 1.2.0-3. I made a copy of libXrandr.so.2.0.0 from libxrandr2 in edgy, and ran beryl with LD_PRELOAD set to that old copy; now it works. See also <http://bugs.beryl-project.org/ticket/1491>.

Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)
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assignee: nobody → seb128
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Please don't assign bug to other people. The fact that a libxrandr update creates problems for beryl doesn't mean than libxrandr is broken, maybe that's the application that needs to be updated for the new lib

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assignee: seb128 → nobody
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Brian Neltner (neltnerb) wrote :

This seems to be functional again.

In order to make it work, I had to comment out the lines from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that enabled composite.

#Section "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection

I doubt the problems are related, but when that is uncommented, Xorg now fails to start claiming that there is an unexpected EOF. I don't see any EOF's in that clip of code, so I'm at a loss to explain that one.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Brian: could you attach your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

closing the bug per request.

Changed in xorg:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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