[gentoo-user] Volume change overlay crashes X

[gentoo-user] Volume change overlay crashes X

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi all, long time no post :)  Good to see that Dale finally has aDSL
(woot).

I just upgraded to gnome 2.28, compiz 0.8.4, and various other things in
a recent large update.  I'm using ~x86.  After a few compile problems
the only noticeable problem I'm having is with the volume change overlay
(I think).

When I change the volume / mute, no nice compiz animation is shown, and
X crashes.  A udev message flashes up on the screen before X restarts:

udevd-work[1365]: error opening ATTR{/sys/class/sound/controlC0/../uevent}
 for writing: no such file or directory

I've been using the same 2.6.30-tuxonice-r5 kernel for a while - do I
need some new feature of 2.6.31?

/var/log/messages shows:

Nov  4 09:44:28 orpheus acpid: client 31528[0:0] has disconnected
Nov  4 09:44:28 orpheus acpid: client 31528[0:0] has disconnected
Nov  4 09:44:28 orpheus acpid: client connected from 31528[0:0]
Nov  4 09:44:28 orpheus acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Nov  4 09:44:29 orpheus acpid: client connected from 31528[0:0]
Nov  4 09:44:29 orpheus acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Nov  4 09:45:01 orpheus acpid: client 31528[0:0] has disconnected
Nov  4 09:45:01 orpheus acpid: client 31528[0:0] has disconnected
Nov  4 09:45:01 orpheus acpid: client connected from 31528[0:0]
Nov  4 09:45:01 orpheus acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Nov  4 09:45:02 orpheus acpid: client connected from 31528[0:0]
Nov  4 09:45:02 orpheus acpid: 1 client rule loaded

which seems a bit odd.  .xsession-erros has nothing unusual:

gnome-session[31592]: WARNING: Detected that screensaver has left the bus
** (evolution:31678): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

dmesg shows: 
compiz[31647]: segfault at 4 ip b746f2fb sp bfe11cd0 error 4 in libGLcore.so.185.18.36[b6a28000+d6f000]

I tried metacity --replace; and X still crashes (the usual volume
overlay isn't shown here either).

And get this: I tried changing the volume from the X login screen, and X
crashes!!  hmm.

Any ideas?  Thanks, as always, in advance!
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

Complex system:
	One with real problems and imaginary profits.

Re: [gentoo-user] Volume change overlay crashes X

[Dale]

Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi all, long time no post :)  Good to see that Dale finally has aDSL
> (woot).
>
>   

Glad you are back.  Yep, DSL is soooo nice.  I just downloaded TWO DVDs,
4.3Gb each.  It took a day but that is better than weeks over dial-up. 
LOL  Now if I had cable, yea baby !!  I'm not complaining about $10.00 a
month either. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] Volume change overlay crashes X

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:13 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:

>   I'm using ~x86.  After a few compile problems
> the only noticeable problem I'm having is with the volume change overlay

well, not anymore.

I re-synced; emerged; broke X; fixed X; and now it's all working again.
That takes me back to the old days (emerge world, then resync and emerge
world again, just in case...)

I'll go back to my hole now :)
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.