[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome session start problem: gnome-panel not visible

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 04/07/2014 12:01, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> What do you have set under "Appearance" -> "Visual Effects" ?
>
> I had issues a while back where I could no longer run compiz on Illumos
> (Intel based graphics) and had to turn it off to get the desktop working
> correctly ...
>

I've the same problem on a Matrox "MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1)",
Fujitsu RX 900 S2, the identical image works on a Dell Precision T3500,
NVIDIA quadro 2000. Killing gnome-panel brings back the panel onto
the screen.

>
>
> On 4 July 2014 10:33, Carsten Grzemba <grzemba at contac-dt.de> wrote:
>
>> On a new oi151a9 installation I have the problem that on gnome session
>> start, the gnome-panel is not visible. I get only the green backdrop, but I
>> can start a terminal with right mouse click context menu.
>> if I run in the terminal:
>> $ gnome-panel --replace
>> all is fine.
>>
>> What is going wrong on session start? .xsession-erros logs only:
>>
>> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
>> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent --
>> gnome-session_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
>>
>> ** (gnome-settings-daemon:2066): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is
>> too frequent, skipping...
>>
>> ** (gnome-settings-daemon:2066): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is
>> too frequent, skipping...
>> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b
>> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b/ssh
>> GNOME_KEYRING_PID=2068
>> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b
>> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b/ssh
>> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b
>> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b/ssh
>> /usr/bin/dispswitch exiting: too few (less than 2) or too many (more than
>> 2) crtcs: 1
>>
>> ** (gnome-power-manager:2085): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner
>> of name 'org.gnome.ScreenSaver': no such name
>> ** (gnome-power-manager:2085): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon
>> responsible for org.gnome.ScreenSaver is not running?
>> ** Message: Initializing gksu extension...
>> Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
>>
>> (nautilus:2075): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 2468:
>> assertion `format != NULL' failed
>> -
>>
>> and
>> $ ptree `pgrep gnome-session`
>> 1427 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
>>   1429 /usr/lib/gdm-simple-slave --display-id
>> /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displa
>>   1732 /usr/lib/gdm-session-worker
>>   2027 gnome-session
>>   2046 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
>>   2071 metacity
>>   2072 gnome-panel
>>   2075 nautilus
>>   2078 /usr/bin/xscreensaver -nosplash
>>   2083 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/lib/updatemanagernotifier
>>   2084 /usr/perl5/bin/perl /usr/bin/desktop-print-management-applet
>>   2090 /usr/lib/ospm/ospm-applet
>>   2085 gnome-power-manager
>>   2089 /usr/lib/nwam-manager
>>   2093 python2.6 /usr/lib/time-slider-notify
>>   2094 /usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-alarm-notify
>>
>> which looks normal for me.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
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