Bug#678011: gdm3: Squeeze->Wheezy regression. 2+ xorg devices Gnome3 launch fails

Harry Coin hcoin at quietfountain.com
Mon Jun 18 15:40:45 UTC 2012


Package: gdm3
Version: 3.0.4-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?

Upgraded a long-time working squeeze system using gnome to Wheezy.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Nothing more than change apt/sources.list from squeeze to wheezy.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
gnome3 fails to launch.  I have more than one nvidia graphics card in the
computer.  If I create an xorg.conf that mentions just one of them and I don't
use it in multi-monitor mode I can get a working desktop.  If I mention more
than one graphics card, or I delete xorg.conf, when gnome tries to start it
loads several instances of my user name across the top of one monitor, mentions
'zaphod mode not supported, using fallback mode', but then of course on the
desktop there is no way to launch any applications.  The entire top bar is
filled with instances of my user name, and the only action I can take is to
choose to log out or update prefrences.


   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected gnome3 to simply 'just work' using the same known good xorg.conf
that was working using squeeze earlier the same day on the same computer.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.15-4
ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu3
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.12.1-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.43
ii  gconf2                                      3.2.5-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.4.1.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.4.2-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.15-4
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.4.0-2
ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-7
ii  libaudit0                                   1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6                                       2.13-33
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.12.2-1
ii  libcairo2                                   1.12.2-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-4
ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.6.0-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.9.0-6
ii  libfreetype6                                2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf2-4                                 3.2.5-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.32.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.4.2-1
ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpango1.0-0                               1.30.0-1
ii  librsvg2-common                             2.36.1-1
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.9-2
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.16-2
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-23
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.7-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxklavier16                               5.2.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2
ii  lsb-base                                    4.1+Debian6
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.3-2
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  upower                                      0.9.16-2
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 278-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi                 1.32.0-1
ii  desktop-base           6.0.7
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.4.0-2
ii  gnome-power-manager    3.4.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.4.2-3
ii  x11-xkb-utils          7.7~1
ii  xserver-xephyr         2:1.12.1.902-1
ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.6+13
ii  zenity                 3.4.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag             1:0.16.3-1
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
pn  gok                   <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.4.1-4
ii  metacity              1:2.34.3-2

-- debconf information:
-------------- next part --------------
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder63)  Fri Aug 14 17:55:55 PDT 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "MiddleBot" 1152 864
    Screen      1  "FarRightBot" 3456 864
    Screen      2  "RightStack" 2304 0 
    Screen      3  "LeftStack" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Hitachi"
    ModelName      "PF790"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 69.0
    Option	   "UseEDIDFreqs" "Off"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "DELL"
    ModelName      "DELL  Trinitron"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor2"
    VendorName     "DELL"
    ModelName      "DELL D1226H"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 95.0
    VertRefresh     70.0 - 76.0
#    Option	   "UseEDIDFreqs" "Off"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor3"
    VendorName     "NEC"
    ModelName      "NEC AccuSync 120"
    HorizSync       31.0 - 96.0
    VertRefresh     55.0 - 160.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen          0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen          1
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device2"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200"
    BusID          "PCI:3:13:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device3"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200"
    BusID          "PCI:3:11:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
#Hitachi center bottom.
    Identifier     "MiddleBot"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1152x864 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
#Dell trinitron far right on desk.
    Identifier     "FarRightBot"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT-1: 1152x864 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
#Dell above gateway right of center
    Identifier     "RightStack"
    Device         "Device2"
    Monitor        "Monitor2"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "ConnectedMonitor"  "CRT-0, CRT-1"
    Option         "HorizSync" "CRT-0: 30-95;  CRT-1: 30-121"
#    Option         "VertRefresh" "CRT-0: 50-160; CRT-1: 50-160"
    Option         "VertRefresh" "CRT-0: 72-77; CRT-1: 69-72"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1152x864 +0+0, CRT-1: 1152x864 +0+864"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
#NEC Accusyncs on left
    Identifier     "LeftStack"
    Device         "Device3"
    Monitor        "Monitor3"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "ConnectedMonitor"  "CRT-0, CRT-1"
    Option         "HorizSync" "CRT-0: 31-96;  CRT-1: 31-96"
    Option         "VertRefresh" "CRT-0: 59-61; CRT-1: 74-76"
#    Option         "VertRefresh" "CRT-0: 55-160; CRT-1: 55-160"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1152x864 +0+0, CRT-1: 1152x864 +0+864"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection



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