Because when I disabled Compiz the crashes stopped..... The system is using a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-SH2 mainboard, AMD Dual core CPU (2.80ghz I think its a 5400+ model), 2GB of quality RAM. I am using the onboard graphics with the driver from the ATI "community repository" I tried to run the graphics at default speed (500mhz) and also at 700mhz (it goes up to 2ghz) and that does not make any difference. I think the graphics RAM is set to 512mb but either way the minimum is 128mb which should be enough? Either way I would expect just poor performance, not crashing, if these settings were not set optimally. What I am saying about runlevel 3 is when the system crashes I can still SSH in to it. If I issue the command 'init 3' I can still see KDE crashed on the screen... it never goes away. Right now I can login to KDE locally and it it will probably crash within the first 30 sec. Also for some reason resizing windows is painfully slow when compiz is enabled. Sometimes it will crash when resizing windows, too. On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Ben Kevan wrote:

On Sunday 13 July 2008 11:52:42 am Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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I setup compiz which made the system randomly crash.

So I try to disable it via the instructions on the openSUSE page and that does not even work, compiz is still enabled. I tried instead to go to the compiz program in KDE (I can't tell you the name because I can't make the system boot and not crash... I can ssh in but the GUI is totally crashed... 'init 3' does not bring the system to text-only mode, either) and that actually disabled it. But after I shut off the machine and turned it back on the next day the effects are re-enabled again and the machine crashes itself within 30 sec of log in.\

1) Why does compiz make the system unstable? 2) How to disable compiz? (or even better how to keep it on without crashes?)

There is no reason for Compiz to be running in runlvl 3 as there is no Window Manager loaded, it shouldn't actually start.

Give specs of your system. Compiz runs beautifully on every system I've tried it on.

How are you really determining that "Compiz" is the one causing system instability (as you say) .

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KDE 3.5. Here's a picture I took 5 minutes after I logged in and did nothing with the system: http://www.bouncethem.com/view.php?id=5803 joako-linux:/home/joako # tail -n 40 .xsession-errors Starting kde-window-decorator QObject::connect: No such signal Kicker::settingsChanged(SettingsCategory) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'kicker') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'animtt') kde-window-decorator: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a decoration manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current decoration manager. evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Setting timeout for 29223 1216008000 1215978777 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 2008 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Sun Jul 13 15:52:57 2008 Usage: suseplugger [--sessioninit] <udi> libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error. (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. akode: Guessed format: xiph compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. (evolution-alarm-notify:3841): libecal-WARNING **: e-cal.c:318: Unexpected response KNotify::playTimeout compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. KNotify::playTimeout (evolution-alarm-notify:3841): libecal-WARNING **: e-cal.c:318: Unexpected response KNotify::playTimeout compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. KNotify::playTimeout compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event. KNotify::playTimeout KNotify::playTimeout KNotify::playTimeout KNotify::playTimeout <unknown program name>(3879)/: Communication problem with "opensuseupdater" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." " joako-linux:/home/joako # tail -n 40 /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x6d (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x6e (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x6f (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x70 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x71 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x72 (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0 (**) Option "CoreKeyboard" (**) Keyboard[0]: always reports core events (**) Option "Protocol" "Standard" (**) Keyboard[0]: Protocol: Standard (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) Keyboard[0]: XkbRules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro" (**) Keyboard[0]: XkbModel: "microsoftpro" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) Keyboard[0]: XkbLayout: "us" (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off" (**) Keyboard[0]: CustomKeycodes disabled (**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Mouse[1]: Device: "/dev/input/mice" (**) Mouse[1]: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse[1]: always reports core events (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "Buttons" "8" (==) Mouse[1]: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse[1]: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse[1]: Buttons: 12 (**) Mouse[1]: Sensitivity: 1 (II) evaluating device (Mouse[1]) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse[1]" (type: MOUSE) (II) evaluating device (Keyboard[0]) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard[0]" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) Mouse[1]: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list! On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:

On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 15:33 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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Because when I disabled Compiz the crashes stopped.....

The system is using a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-SH2 mainboard, AMD Dual core CPU (2.80ghz I think its a 5400+ model), 2GB of quality RAM. I am using the onboard graphics with the driver from the ATI "community repository" I tried to run the graphics at default speed (500mhz) and also at 700mhz (it goes up to 2ghz) and that does not make any difference. I think the graphics RAM is set to 512mb but either way the minimum is 128mb which should be enough? Either way I would expect just poor performance, not crashing, if these settings were not set optimally.

What I am saying about runlevel 3 is when the system crashes I can still SSH in to it. If I issue the command 'init 3' I can still see KDE crashed on the screen... it never goes away.

Right now I can login to KDE locally and it it will probably crash within the first 30 sec.

Also for some reason resizing windows is painfully slow when compiz is enabled. Sometimes it will crash when resizing windows, too.

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Ben Kevan wrote:

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On Sunday 13 July 2008 11:52:42 am Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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I setup compiz which made the system randomly crash.

What version of KDE? And what does it say in your ~/.xession_errors or /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

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How can I revert xorg & XGL configs back to default? I tried the sax2 -r command and it takes me to a text screen but the system is still in runlevel 5. I managed to get compiz disabled and for that to persist between reboots, however now the system is slow as molassas. I type and what is shown on the screen is delayed 3 seconds. I open the k-menu and it takes 5 seconds for it to show up, open a Konsole window and it takes almost a minute to fully load, etc. I think this has to do with me using the xgl enable and disable commands too many times... On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:49 PM, CyberOrg wrote:

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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KDE 3.5. Here's a picture I took 5 minutes after I logged in and did nothing with the system: http://www.bouncethem.com/view.php?id=5803

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compiz (animation) - Error: Animation settings mismatch in "Animation Selection" list for Focus event.

Try this:

rm -rf ~/.config/compiz

Your plugin configuration seems to be messed up.

If possible install latest packages from X11:XGL repository, it has many improvements and fixes. Use 1-click from here: http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz_Fusion

Make sure you have all the packages of same version (0.7.6) after update.

Cheers

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

How can I revert xorg & XGL configs back to default? I tried the sax2 -r command and it takes me to a text screen but the system is still in runlevel 5.

sax2 -a Cheers -J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org