GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 706062
Fedora19/gnome3: Activities : Applications : All = no icons displayed
Last modified: 2013-09-26 19:00:13 UTC
New x86-64bit install of Fedora-19 using a pre-existing /home partition. The all-applications display is apparently working as clicking on blank areas of the display will invoke applications, but: [frequent] displays the appropriate subset of application icons and [all] displays no icons. Blank screen. Changing background (solid, wallpaper, picture) does not alter the symptom. <alt><F>,<r> does not alter the symptom. Post-F19 new-user has the same symptom.
Can you run journalctl e as the affected user after opening the application view and attach the output here?
Created attachment 252127 [details] journalctl output
OK, seems like shaders fail to compile which gpu is that? Can you attach the output of glxinfo as well?
Cannot provide. running 'glxinfo' in a terminal window caused Fedora to crash. The display went to a gray screen with blue hyphens in a diagonal pattern and networking died (an existing SSH session terminated and the IP was not longer pingable). Hard-reset to boot, logged in, opened a terminal window, and tried again. Same symptoms.
Ouch ... this smells like a driver bug. Do you happen to know which GPU (graphics card) do you have? Can you attach the output of "lspci" ?
00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Host Bridge (rev a1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2) 00:01.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 1.1 Controller (rev a3) 00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 2.0 Controller (rev a3) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) 00:05.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:08.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:08.1 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
Integrated graphics on a Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2PE motherboard.
This looks like a driver bug. As a workaround you can try to install the proprietary nvidia driver which should work. But please file a bug against the nouveau driver at bugzilla.freedesktop.org
I created account on bugzilla.freedesktop.org and filed the bug against XORG. In the interim, can you provide some guidance on how to install the proprietary nvidia driver ?
(In reply to comment #9) > I created account on bugzilla.freedesktop.org and filed the bug against XORG. > In the interim, can you provide some guidance on how to install the proprietary > nvidia driver ? Type this commands in a terminal (as root i.e "type su and enter your rootpassword before"): yum http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-19.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-19.noarch.rpm yum install akmod-nvidia-304xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx-libs And then reboot your system.
(In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > I created account on bugzilla.freedesktop.org and filed the bug against XORG. > > In the interim, can you provide some guidance on how to install the proprietary > > nvidia driver ? > > Type this commands in a terminal (as root i.e "type su and enter your > rootpassword before"): > yum install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-19.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-19.noarch.rpm Sorry forgot the "install"
That didn't work out so well. My system now gets no further than [OK] Started GNOME Display Manager I can ssh to it, but the KVM appears to be useless.
(In reply to comment #12) > That didn't work out so well. My system now gets no further than > [OK] Started GNOME Display Manager > I can ssh to it, but the KVM appears to be useless. OK that sucks ... do "yum history undo last" from your ssh session to get back to the previous state. I will try to get a fixed mesa package with a fix into fedora (will talk to the mesa maintainers).
Sorry for the duplicious post. The undo last got be back to where I was. Thank you. I look forward to the next installment. Thank you for your perseverance.
This should be fixed in mesa 9.2.1 which will get released soon.
Indeed, the latest round of Fedora updates corrected the display problem. TYVM