[SOLVED] desktop effects could not be enabled

[Sponzenbroekske]

Yesterday they worked today they don't

annick@asus:~$ compiz                                                                                                                                                             
Checking for Xgl: not present.                                                                                                                                                     
Detected PCI ID for VGA:                                                                                                                                                           
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.                                                                                                                                     
Trying again with indirect rendering:                                                                                                                                              
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.                                                                                                                                         
Checking for non power of two support: present.                                                                                                                                    
Checking for Composite extension: present.                                                                                                                                         
Comparing resolution (1280x800) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.                                                                                                         
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.                                                                                                                                     
Checking for nVidia: not present.                                                                                                                                                  
Checking for FBConfig: present.                                                                                                                                                    
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Segmentation fault
Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly.
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/yannick/.config/metacity/sessions/105ee0a946bc0d3df1122512324727302300000060670017.ms: Failed to open file '/home/yannick/.config/metacity/sessions/105ee0a946bc0d3df1122512324727302300000060670017.ms': No such file or directory
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:129: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "arrow-down-ins.png"
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:133: Background image options specified without filename
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:542: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "arrow-down-ins.png"
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:544: Overlay image options specified without filename

This do I get when I try to update/upgrade, it says that the compiz-core needs to be upgraded

he following packages will be upgraded:                                                                                                                                           
  compiz-core                                                                                                                                                                      
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.                                                                                                                     
Need to get 0B/843kB of archives.                                                                                                                                                  
After this operation, 2228kB of additional disk space will be used.                                                                                                                
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y                                                                                                                                                   
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!                                                                                                                           
  compiz-core                                                                                                                                                                      
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y                                                                                                                               
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog                                                                                                                                     
debconf: (Dialog frontend requires a screen at least 13 lines tall and 31 columns wide.)                                                                                           
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline                                                                                                                                        
(Reading database ... 148761 files and directories currently installed.)                                                                                                           
Preparing to replace compiz-core 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4 (using .../compiz-core_1%3a0.7.9+git20080918.shame-0_amd64.deb) ...                                                              
Unpacking replacement compiz-core ...                                                                                                                                              
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-core_1%3a0.7.9+git20080918.shame-0_amd64.deb (--unpack):                                                                     
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/compiz', which is also in package compiz-wrapper                                                                                                    
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)                                                                                                                          
Processing triggers for man-db ...                                                                                                                                                 
Errors were encountered while processing:                                                                                                                                          
 /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-core_1%3a0.7.9+git20080918.shame-0_amd64.deb                                                                                                       
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

edit: ow yeah
Ubuntu 8.10 64bit
ATI RADEON HD 2400 (driver installed)

[Sponzenbroekske]

Still not working and for the record, I'm using GNOME (and while I'm here, what does GNOME stand for?)

[hictio]

Not sure, but, I start my Desktop Effects like this:

/usr/bin/compiz --replace ccp & /usr/bin/emerald --replace &

Did you installed or upgraded something? Any why the Effects stopped working?
My Desktop Effects, I mean, the only problem I had was that I have disabled up purpose, thru "System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects", and after that I wasn't able to start them again.

I'm using GNOME (and while I'm here, what does GNOME stand for?)

From Wikipedia:
"The name originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment, though this acronym is deprecated."

[hictio]

Last week I had a similar problem, couldn't start the Desktop Effects, even tho they were working perfectly, stopped them a minute, and after that I wasn't able to make them work again.

In the end, I was able to, using a script which link I found on the Compiz forum, it is called "compiz-check".

I have posted everything on my blog: Vanishing plugin, compared to your posted problems, there are a few things I did not had or did:

- I never tried to update/ upgrade compiz while I wasn't able to use Compiz.

- I did not got a segmentation fault when tried to execute Compiz.

- The errors I got when I was trying to run Compiz manually did not include the Theme errors that I see on yours:

Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly.
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/yannick/.config/metacity/sessions/105ee0a946bc0d3df1122512324727302300000060670017.ms: Failed to open file '/home/yannick/.config/metacity/sessions/105ee0a946bc0d3df1122512324727302300000060670017.ms': No such file or directory
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:129: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "arrow-down-ins.png"
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:133: Background image options specified without filename
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:542: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "arrow-down-ins.png"
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:544: Overlay image options specified without filename

Hope this helps.

[Sponzenbroekske]

Thx that got me a little further but not far enough though

yannick@asus:~$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

 Distribution:          Ubuntu 8.10
 Desktop environment:   GNOME      
 Graphics chip:         ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 2400
 Driver in use:         fglrx                                       
 Rendering method:      None                                        

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...  [SKIP]

 Checking for hardware/setup problems...           [SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
 Error: No rendering method in use (AIGLX, Xgl or Nvidia)

SO I HAVE NO RENDERING METHOD, WHAT NOW?

[hictio]

Too bad, I'm sorry, then again, that segfault doesn't look good at all.
Do you have any clue why the Desktop Effects might have stopped working?
Updates? Installed something?

[Sponzenbroekske]

- The errors I got when I was trying to run Compiz manually did not include the Theme errors that I see on yours:

Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly.
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/yannick/.config/metacity/sessions/105ee0a946bc0d3df1122512324727302300000060670017.ms: Failed to open file '/home/yannick/.config/metacity/sessions/105ee0a946bc0d3df1122512324727302300000060670017.ms': No such file or directory
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:129: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "arrow-down-ins.png"
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:133: Background image options specified without filename
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:542: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "arrow-down-ins.png"
/home/yannick/.themes/CarbonoRED-0.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:544: Overlay image options specified without filename

Hope this helps.

about the theme-errors, there no big deal, just that theres a file missing, but that is replaced automatically by the default file, or thats what I think

[hictio]

Yeah, I think so too, but I was just pointing the differences between my setup and tests.
I bet your problem lies on segfault one.