Bug 297596 – Empty xorg.conf, set res in KDE, logout, login, reverts to default

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Timothy Miller 2009-12-20 01:18:46 UTC]

Since I'm using ~amd64 and the latest X.org, experts (such as xorg devs) have told me to use an empty xorg.conf.  I can set a resolution in KDE.  But if I log out and back in, it reverts to default.  People are telling me that I should add an entry to my xorg.conf to set the res.  But that's obviously not the right answer since many end users (of distros besides Gentoo anyhow) would have no idea how to do that.

I'm reporting this here (and not directly to KDE) because I don't know yet if this is a KDE bug, some problem with what's in portage, or some interaction problem between KDE and X.org.

Reproducible: Always




Portage 2.1.7.15 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.0
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.64
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=5"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="--jobs=5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 aspell autotrace bash-completion berkdb bidi bonjour bzip2 cairo cdda cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups curl cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr encode exif fbcon ffmpeg fftw filter flac fontconfig fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm gmm gnutls gpm gs hal httpd iconv imagemagick ipv6 jadetex java jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos kvm lame lapack latex lcms ldap live lm_sensors lzma mad matroska mjpeg mmx mng modules mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl openmp openssl pam pcre pdf perl php plasma plotutils png ppds pppd python qemu qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rss ruby samba sasl semantic-desktop session smp spl sql sse sse2 sse3 ssl stream svg sysfs tcl tcpd theora threads thumbnail tiff tk truetype unicode utempter vcd vlm vnc vorbis webkit wxwindows x264 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-04-08 23:25:15 UTC]

Which KDE version was this, and does the problem still appear with KDE 4.3.5 or 4.4.2?

[Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-08-18 21:02:09 UTC]

Not sure if this is even a bug or completely expected behaviour. Anyway, needs info badly...

[Comment 3 Timothy Miller 2010-08-23 15:19:43 UTC]

I've tested this with the latest KDE in ~amd64, which is kde-base/kde-meta-4.4.5.  This problem still exists.

And OF COURSE this is a bug:

(1) I am not aware of any other KDE "system settings" that evaporate when you log out.
(2) Resolution settings in other operating systems (e.g. Windows, MacOS X) do not evaporate when you log out.

Anything that violates obvious user expectations like this should not be swept under the rug.