Mutter/Gala crash on FGLRX 12.8

[Jonathan Alfonso]

I'm using Elementary OS Luna 0.2 and I had installed the FGLRX drivers to attempt to get WebGL support. I had rebooted to a unusable desktop (only window manager was gala and I could not use the keyboard) so I had installed mutter from TTY1. Once I installed it, mutter also crashed with the same issue that Gala crashes with (see below). I assume that this is because Gala's forked off mutter? Anyways I had to install Metacity and every login I must now type metacity --replace in a terminal.

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Mutter:

(mutter:21179): Gdk-WARNING **: The program 'mutter' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 127 error_code 1 request_code 139 minor_code 66)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Gala:

(gala:21825): Gdk-WARNING **: The program 'gala' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 127 error_code 1 request_code 139 minor_code 66)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
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Version info:

mutter:
  Installed: 3.4.1-0ubuntu99~elementary2
  Candidate: 3.4.1-0ubuntu99~elementary2
  Version table:
 *** 3.4.1-0ubuntu99~elementary2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/daily/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        999 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/os-patches/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.4.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Package

gala:
  Installed: 0.1-0~r219+pkg13~precise1
  Candidate: 0.1-0~r219+pkg13~precise1
  Version table:
 *** 0.1-0~r219+pkg13~precise1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/daily/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.275-0~345~precise1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Thu Sep 6 14:40:01 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20120902-20:44
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

fglrx is known to be buggy, and we can do nothing about that. It's blacklisted in Jockey in elementary OS for a reason, you know.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. 11.04 reached End of Life in 2012. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with your release and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.