Heiko Baums <li...@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am 14.01.2015 um 02:21 schrieb walt:
> > Here are some hints for ~amd64 users who are about to have trouble with
> > gnome3-session failing to start:
> >
> > After updating today to mesa-10.4.2 and xorg-server-1.16.3-r1, gnome3
> > failed to start, complaining that 3d acceleration was not available.
> >
> > This was true, unfortunately, and the reason is that xorg-server is
> > looking for the nvidia glx module in the wrong directory, i.e.
> > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.
> >
> > The correct path is /usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so.
> >
> > Normally, 'eselect opengl' sets this path correctly, but not today,
> > apparently.
> >
> > I finally worked around this problem by creating an appropriate
> > symlink to the nvidia libglx.so file in the correct location.
> >
> > Another recent problem is that xorg-server is honoring *only* the
> > first path listed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20opengl, and fails if
> > the appropriate file isn't there:
> >
> > i.e. it looks in /usr/lib32/ as the first default path (even on a
> > 64-bit machine) and fails to look in /usr/lib64/ even though that
> > path is correctly included in the list of places to look.
> >
> > I think the devs are already aware of these bugs and are working
> > on the problem. (Obviously not fixed yet :)
> >
> >
> > BTW, some good news: mesa-10.4.2 fixes a problem with running
> > gnome3 as virtualbox guest: The software rasterizer in the new
> > mesa is now fast enough to satisfy /usr/libexec/gnome-session-
> > check-accelerated, so gnome-session no longer craps out when
> > starting in virtualbox :)
>
> It's a known bug in eselect-opengl:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534128
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536266
>
Thanks -- you just saved me a bunch of time -- I just masked off the
eselect-opengl version and hopefully this will not happen to me.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
cov...@ccs.covici.com
