On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:39:24 +0000, Frank Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > Yesterday I tried to rebuild my kernel to use gensplash, I followed > the very good howto at [1] and opted to compile gensplash into the > kernel using genkernel. I am not using the initramfs image stuff. > Everything appeared to work just fine I get all that lovely eye-candy. > > However when my system tried to start X & gnome it locked up. X did > appear to start, the gnome splash screen appeared, but the icon for > "starting metacity" never appeared. X locked up so badly that I > couldn't drop back to the terminal via CTRL+ALT+F1, nor could I even > kill it with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. I ended up having to ssh into the box > to disable gnome and reboot the machine. > > I then edited my rc.conf so that I'd start a plain old X session. I > rebooted, and everything worked just fine. I could even run gnome > based applications (like evolution). So I'm starting to wonder if > perhaps there is a conflict between metacity and gensplash? > > I still have that gensplash kernel available, so I can reproduce this > at will, but I'm at a stand still. Can anyone offer any suggestions > here - where should I start looking? Should I grab stack traces from > X, metacity gnome-session or some other processes? > I'd appreciate any ideas on how I should debug this from here. > > I should also mention that I'm running all this on a Dell d600 laptop, > the kernel has been patched to use the radeonfb details of the patches > that I applied are at [2]. > > any help suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. > thanks in advance, > --Frank > > [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash > [2] http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/
I just tested this using initramfs and a manually built kernel, but the problem still persists. The issue here is not metacity. I can launch X, metacity, nautilus, gnome-panel, and everything works fine. The problem is when my machine boots directly into gnome and launches gnome-session... I might try re-emerging gnome-session. Again if anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it. cheers, ---Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
