Bug 71254 – metacity 2.8.6 freezed the system after gnome was brought up

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 67159
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yang Dehua 2004-11-15 00:40:09 UTC]

I emerged metacity 2.8.6 in my ppc64(G5) using gtk+2.4.4 and gnome 2.6.2 successfully, but the the system freezed after the gnome was brought up. The only thing I could do was to switch off the computer; no response to keyboard and mouse.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64 ~ppc64" emerge metacity 
2. startx


Actual Results:  
System freezed

Expected Results:  
Usable gnome gui

[Comment 1 Joe McCann (RETIRED) 2004-11-15 00:48:36 UTC]

1. please provide the output of `emerge info` (read the bug report guidelines please)
2. Don't alter the accept_keywords var on a one time basis like that, use /etc/porgage/package.use (man portage)
3. Are you using the composite extension for xorg? If so you need to disable it as the metacity build says to.
4. If no to number 3, can you provide a more detailed error, possibly some relevent information from X logs or .xsession-errors

[Comment 2 Joe McCann (RETIRED) 2004-11-15 00:49:46 UTC]

/etc/portage/package.keywords rather

[Comment 3 Yang Dehua 2004-11-15 02:58:52 UTC]

Thank you. It worked after I disabled the composite extension in xorg.conf. Thanks again.

[Comment 4 Joe McCann (RETIRED) 2004-11-15 06:03:35 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67159 ***