OpenOffice.org + Compiz/Beryl lock-ups when closing

techmum · #1 29th November 2006, 01:33 AM

Anyone else seeing lock-up problems with OpenOffice.org and Compiz/Beryl?

Had Compiz running on FC6T2 and had lots of lock-ups when OO.o is closed or exited. Just installed Beryl on FC6 and seeing exactly the same problems.

Lock-ups don't allow any key combination to work such as CTRL+ALT+Backspace, or CTRL+ALT+F1.

System is IBM T30 running radeon drive.

Suggestions to fix are welcome.

AlexThomson_NZ · #2 29th November 2006, 01:43 AM

Sorry, don't know of a fix, but as a workaround have you tried this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising...Utterly_Boring

techmum · #3 29th November 2006, 04:29 AM

Wow >

Didn't know about RSEIUB.

Unfortunately my OO.o lock-up is very repeatable, and when I tried Alt+SysRq+RSEIUB still wouldn't force a reboot.

Still had to hold down the power button for 5 seconds to force shutdown.

Ta anyway.

czizza · #4 14th January 2007, 05:48 PM

I have the same problem, I think it is more associated with AIGLX and OpenOffice, has anyone else been able to repeat the problem?

Is there a fix?

Jongi · #5 14th January 2007, 06:39 PM

I've never had issues with OOo and Beryl. Maybe its linked to the radeon driver.

techmum · #6 15th January 2007, 04:44 AM

I also suspect it is related to the radeon driver settings.

I have been testing AIGLX and Beryl with NVIDIA card and driver - and no crashes so far.

However on my Lenovo notebook with ATI chipset - no such luck.

czizza · #7 15th January 2007, 06:38 PM

OK, did somemore testing. With BERYL/COMPIZ off so that I am running plain metacity the problem is NOT evident.

Turn on BERYL/COMPIZ and it will lock everything but the mouse movement. I can not click on anything nor is the keyboard responsive. However, I can still move the mouse.

This is definitly related to some with the raedon and AIGLX rendering code.

William Haller · #8 15th January 2007, 06:45 PM

Possibly related. I've noticed that when I run oocalc as another user in a su konsole window, there are frequent lockups on exit. If I change the modes of /dev/dri/card0 from 600 to 666 before starting oocalc (as the original user, of course), the lockups don't happen. It would be interesting to see if there was a dri access permission being hit somehow in compiz/beryl.

JN4OldSchool · #9 15th January 2007, 06:52 PM

hate to be the turd in the punchbowl but I have the same problem with vmware and beryl with an nvidia 7800GT. And as described, the problem is repeatable. I have narrowed my issue down to trying to log off the guest OS while still in full screen mode. My solution? I turn beryl off to run vmware. Hardly an option with OO.o though.

BTW, I never had this problem with OO.o but believe it has happened twice with Firefox. Horses for the courses, it will be fixed soon enough...

edit:

Quote:

Turn on BERYL/COMPIZ and it will lock everything but the mouse movement. I can not click on anything nor is the keyboard responsive. However, I can still move the mouse.

This is it exactly and ctrl+alt+F-anything wont work, Ctrl+alt+esc does nothing...in fact no keystrokes or mouse clicks on anything. Only the cursor moves freely. Shutdown/reboot is the only way out and I know how much FC hates forced reboots.

czizza · #10 15th January 2007, 09:25 PM

More data, I seems that X gets broken ... the system is not locked up ... I was able to telnet in from another workstation.

I ran a 'ps -ef' and oocalc was not on the list of process. I killed Xorg with a -9 and a new X session started; however, it was in 800x600 mode with a viewport of 1600x1400 also the old X was still on the screen (I think in VT7).

I check Xorg.0.log and my xsession.log and nothing unusual ...

So I think, there is something going on in the Radeon driver.

czizza · #11 15th January 2007, 11:19 PM

OK ... I think I FIXED it ...

1) I minimized my xorg.conf settings to the following:

Option "AGPFastWrite" "on"
Option "MergedFB" "false"
Option "MergedXinerama" "false"
Option "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" "false"
Option "MergedNonRectangular" "false"
Option "ColorTiling" "on"
Option "DynamicClocks" "false"
Option "BiosHotKeys" "off"
Option "VGAAccess" "on"
Option "ReverseDDC" "false"
Option "GARTSize" "64"

Option "EnablePageFlip" "off"

2) If you change "EnablePageFlip" to "on" ... oocalc blows up.

So change EnablePageFlip to "off" and all is well. Can someone check this?

Regards,
Melo

EclipseAgent · #12 16th January 2007, 03:38 AM

Yes turning off page flips is known to fix it..

What version of Compiz / Beryl are you running?

compiz --version
compiz 0.3.6
beryl --version
beryl-core 0.1.4

Ooo 2.0.4.7 here

czizza · #13 16th January 2007, 04:04 AM

compiz version = 0.0.13
beryl-core version = 0.1.4
Open Office = 2.0.4-5.5.10

EclipseAgent · #14 16th January 2007, 04:19 AM

Is there an update for compiz you can install? I would start there..

czizza · #15 16th January 2007, 01:23 PM

Just ran yum update, so I am using the latest rpm's. I don't want to stray from yum-rpm's but if you know how I can access some of the pre-release rpm's I would be happy to try them?

As for performance without the "EnablePageFlips" option on, I have the following:

[czizza@dmt-czizza ~]$ glxgears
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
11089 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2217.504 FPS
11872 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2374.334 FPS
11524 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2304.651 FPS
11039 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2207.706 FPS
11097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2219.400 FPS
12432 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2486.233 FPS
[czizza@dmt-czizza ~]$

I think that's still on PAR, what do you think?