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Bug 650787 - Gnome-shell crashes with custom xorg.conf
Gnome-shell crashes with custom xorg.conf
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 648156
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-22 10:31 UTC by Steven Webb
Modified: 2011-05-22 16:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
~/.xsession-errors (9.87 KB, text/plain)
2011-05-22 10:31 UTC, Steven Webb 		Details
xorg.conf (3.39 KB, text/plain)
2011-05-22 10:32 UTC, Steven Webb 		Details

Description Steven Webb 2011-05-22 10:31:27 UTC 
Created attachment 188329 [details]
~/.xsession-errors

If I let X automatically configure itself gnome-session works correctly. However, when I manually specify an xorg.conf gnome-shell crashes, displays an error saying something went wrong, and has a logout button. If I launch gnome-shell from a terminal (with export DISPLAY=:0) I get the following errors:

Window manager warning: Log level 8: gtk_style_context_get: assertion `priv->widget_path != NULL' failed
gnome-shell: /build/buildd/cairo-1.10.2/src/cairo-pattern.c:764: cairo_pattern_reference: Assertion `((*&(&pattern->ref_count)->ref_count) > 0)' failed.

I've attached ~/.xsession-errors. As GDM is starting correctly I believe my xorg.conf is correct.

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 with the closed source nVidia driver.

Cheers for the great work in Gnome 3.

Steve.
Comment 1 Steven Webb 2011-05-22 10:32:17 UTC 
Created attachment 188330 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 2 Rui Matos 2011-05-22 11:09:00 UTC 
Does this happen if you use only a single screen in your X configuration?
Comment 3 Steven Webb 2011-05-22 12:02:31 UTC 
No. Only with two monitors. I can get either my laptop screen or the external monitor working with an xorg.conf.
Comment 4 Rui Matos 2011-05-22 16:00:22 UTC 
Ok, so this is already known. I recommend you to use nvidia's twinview feature instead of separate X screens as a workaround for now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 648156 ***