Bug 243456 – blank screen in starting compiz

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST

[Description junmin 2008-10-23 18:51:28 UTC]

after last emerge -avuDN @world @system today, compiz got problem every time i want to star it. it ends up with a blank screen. i have been searching around, but cannot find what is wrong. i would think that last updated stuff have some bug o something like that. is it xorg-server?? here is the list emerged today:

 * gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.24.1 - 10/23/2008                                                                        │
│ * gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.24.0 - 10/23/2008                                                                        │
│ * gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.24.1 - 10/23/2008                                                                         │
│ * gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.24.0 - 10/23/2008                                                                         │
│ * app-arch/file-roller-2.24.1 - 10/23/2008                                                                           │
│ * app-arch/file-roller-2.24.0 - 10/23/2008                                                                           │
│ * x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.16.1 - 10/23/2008                                                                         │
│ * x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.16.0 - 10/23/2008                                                                         │
│ * x11-libs/libwnck-2.24.1 - 10/23/2008                                                                               │
│ * x11-libs/libwnck-2.24.0 - 10/23/2008                                                                               │
│ * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2 - 10/23/2008                                                                            │
│ * www-client/opera-9.61 - 10/23/2008                                                                                 │
│ * www-client/opera-9.60 - 10/23/2008                                                                                 │
│ * media-libs/mesa-7.2 - 10/23/2008                                                                                   │
│ * x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.0 - 10/23/2008                                                                                 │
│ * dev-libs/libpthread-stubs-0.1 - 10/23/2008                                                                         │
│ * www-servers/tomcat-6.0.18-r1 - 10/23/2008                                                                          │
│ * dev-java/junit-4.5 - 10/23/2008 

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junmin@thinking ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7300_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.3.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.26
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ "
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/gentoo-china /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias proxy proxy_http proxy_ftp proxy_connect" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa i810"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

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hope you guys could give me any information about that. thanks

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
compiz cannot start up correctly, show up with a totally blank screen.

Expected Results:  
compiz starts successfully.

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-10-23 19:35:18 UTC]

you just updated mesa & xorg-server, this sounds like the white cube issue again.

[Comment 2 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2008-10-25 22:01:44 UTC]

Ok, I found it.  It appears Gilles was referring to bug 148675, which suggests that compiz, mesa and xorg-server are using different versions of the glproto package.

Can you please ensure that you've recompiled mesa, xorg-server and compiz, and whether the problem still occurs?

Also, you appear to be using i810 as your video card.  This was recently renamed to intel, so please run "emerge --sync", change your VIDEO_CARDS="i810" entry, and ensure that your xorg.conf mentions only 'driver "intel"' not 'driver "i810"'.  Thanks...  5:)

[Comment 3 Gianluca Andreotti (K.a.o.s.) 2008-11-11 18:23:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Ok, I found it.  It appears Gilles was referring to bug 148675, which suggests
> that compiz, mesa and xorg-server are using different versions of the glproto
> package.
> 
> Can you please ensure that you've recompiled mesa, xorg-server and compiz, and
> whether the problem still occurs?
> 
> Also, you appear to be using i810 as your video card.  This was recently
> renamed to intel, so please run "emerge --sync", change your VIDEO_CARDS="i810"
> entry, and ensure that your xorg.conf mentions only 'driver "intel"' not
> 'driver "i810"'.  Thanks...  5:)
> 

The problem still occurs for me. I have VIDEO_CARDS="intel" and I synced before try.

I also re-emerged glproto.

I will try recompile completely Xorg and Compiz.

[Comment 4 Gianluca Andreotti (K.a.o.s.) 2008-11-12 12:39:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> I will try recompile completely Xorg and Compiz.
> 

Nothing changed, I still get white screen.

[Comment 5 Gianluca Andreotti (K.a.o.s.) 2008-11-12 18:47:14 UTC]

Strangely with mm-sources (2.6.28) I can start Compiz without the blank screen.

Is this a workaround?

[Comment 6 junmin 2008-11-13 15:32:50 UTC]

compiz is working good now. :)