Comment 10 for bug 1972037

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Stan Tomlinson (v-stan) wrote : Re: [Bug 1972037] Re: Stack Overflow - gnome-control-center
  • Xorg.0.log Edit (30.4 KiB, text/x-log; charset="US-ASCII"; name="Xorg.0.log")

Turned off COMPOSITE, and am getting the same reaction.
See attached Xorg.0.log

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 3:20 AM Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
wrote:

> The Xorg log was sent via email and contains
>
> (WW) NVIDIA: The Composite and Xinerama extensions are both enabled, which
> (WW) NVIDIA: is an unsupported configuration. The driver will continue
> (WW) NVIDIA: to load, but may behave strangely.
> (WW) NVIDIA: Xinerama is enabled, so RandR has likely been disabled by the
> (WW) NVIDIA: X server.
>
> gnome-control-center should handle the situation better but that's a bit
> of a special graphical display configuration, did you try to do without
> xinerama?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972037
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> Title:
> Stack Overflow - gnome-control-center
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
>
> Program: gnome-control-center
> Installed version: 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu4 (ubuntu default download)
> OS: ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
> GNOME Version: 3.36.8 (ubuntu default download)
> Windowing System: X11
> Graphics: GeForce 8400GS/PCIe/SSE2
> Driver: Using NVIDIA binary driver version 340.108
> Source: download version from ubuntu
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> Reset GNOME settings with:
> dconf reset -f /org/gnome/control-center/
> Open GNOME Settings with:
> /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
> Click on "Displays" and receive:
> Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0".
> Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0".
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Repeated using gdb with package symbols.
> Output of "bt -full" in attachment (with a few comments).
>
> (Submitted to gnome.org, but they said it is out of date and not
> supported by them.)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.36.5-0ubuntu4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-100.113-generic 5.4.166
> Uname: Linux 5.4.0-100-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.23
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:GNOME
> Date: Fri May 6 20:38:55 2022
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-07-11 (3952 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64
> (20110426)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2022-02-01 (94 days ago)
>
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