On an F9 64 bit system, I decided to try compiz because it worked so beautifully on my Ubuntu systems. I was testing the features, an tried the zoom thing in which you hit the Super key and use the right mouse button to highlight an area of the screen, and then that screen zooms to show just the selected part. Right after I did that, compiz stopped reacting to mouse and keyboard, and I had to do Alt-Ctrl-Backspace to get X to restart. Now, whenever I try to run compiz, I can use the Gnome applications menu to choose programs, but none of them ever successfully start. Compiz segfaults every time a program tries to start, and the segfault kills the program too. Compiz flashes black for a moment then re-draws the screen. Here's what shows in /var/log/messages Jun 6 10:02:08 pols110 kernel: compiz[5119]: segfault at 37866022b0 ip 37866022b0 sp 7fffb798d438 error 4 in libXfixes.so.3.1.0[3786a00000+5000] Jun 6 10:02:20 pols110 kernel: compiz[5204]: segfault at 37866022b0 ip 37866022b0 sp 7fffca13ecc8 error 4 in libXfixes.so.3.1.0[3786a00000+5000] Jun 6 10:02:38 pols110 kernel: compiz[5207]: segfault at 37866022b0 ip 37866022b0 sp 7fff8df579e8 error 4 in libXfixes.so.3.1.0[3786a00000+5000] Jun 6 10:02:45 pols110 kernel: compiz[5211]: segfault at 37866022b0 ip 37866022b0 sp 7fff4c48cf28 error 4 in libXfixes.so.3.1.0[3786a00000+5000] Jun 6 10:02:52 pols110 kernel: compiz[5215]: segfault at 37866022b0 ip 37866022b0 sp 7fff99b70608 error 4 in libXfixes.so.3.1.0[3786a00000+5000] Jun 6 10:03:09 pols110 console-kit-daemon[2378]: GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for `gchararray' passed as NULL Jun 6 10:03:09 pols110 kernel: compiz[5229]: segfault at 3790a2ea70 ip 3790a2ea70 sp 7fff45f3b2e8 error 4 in libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0[3791200000+9000] I see one of those messages for each program I try to start. I rebooted the system, compiz comes back in this messed up state. I'd like to "clear out" all of the compiz settings, and tried to do that with the compiz settings manager, but this malfunction still happens. The only thing I can do is run System/Personal/Desktop Effects and turn them off. What do you think? Here's how I got in this mess: I installed these RPMS: Jun 06 09:10:20 Installed: gnome-compiz-manager-devel.x86_64 0.10.4-4.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:21 Installed: compiz-bcop.noarch 0.7.2-1.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:23 Installed: compiz.i386 0.7.2-3.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:26 Installed: compiz-fusion.x86_64 0.7.2-2.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:28 Installed: compiz-fusion-extras.x86_64 0.7.2-2.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:47 Installed: compiz-gnome.x86_64 0.7.2-3.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:49 Installed: compizconfig-backend-gconf.x86_64 0.7.2-1.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:52 Installed: emerald.x86_64 0.7.2-1.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:52 Installed: compiz-devel.i386 0.7.2-3.fc9 Jun 06 09:10:52 Installed: compiz-fusion-devel.x86_64 0.7.2-2.fc9 Jun 06 09:11:19 Installed: compiz-fusion-gnome.x86_64 0.7.2-2.fc9 Jun 06 09:11:20 Installed: libcompizconfig-devel.x86_64 0.7.2-1.fc9 Jun 06 09:11:20 Installed: compiz-devel.x86_64 0.7.2-3.fc9 Jun 06 09:11:52 Installed: compiz-fusion-extras-gnome.x86_64 0.7.2-2.fc9 Jun 06 09:12:48 Installed: compizconfig-python.x86_64 0.7.2-1.fc9 Jun 06 09:12:50 Installed: PyQt4.x86_64 4.3.3-2.fc9 Jun 06 09:12:53 Installed: ccsm.noarch 0.7.2-1.fc9 Jun 06 09:12:54 Installed: fusion-icon-qt.noarch 0.1.0-0.2.5e2dc9git.fc9 Jun 06 09:12:55 Installed: fusion-icon.noarch 0.1.0-0.2.5e2dc9git.fc9 Jun 06 09:36:18 Installed: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.05-1.lvn9.x86_64 And used the Livna versions of the new X11 drivers Jun 06 09:36:18 Installed: kmod-nvidia-173.14.05-3.lvn9.x86_64 Jun 06 09:36:19 Installed: kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.4-30.fc9.x86_64-173.14.05-3.lvn9.x86_64 Jun 06 09:36:21 Installed: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.05-1.lvn9.x86_64 GLX would not start because the X11 system was finding the generic AIGLX instead of nvidia's glx, but glx does work after moving the "wrong one" and creating a symbolic link mv /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/old-libglx.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so I'd encourage any of you compiz users to be cautious about using the Super (Windows) key with the right mouse button, or else you might end up in hell like me. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
