[FIXED] In arch linux, cinnamon does not starts (Tried multiple DM)

[gabboman]

I have installed arch, lastest gnome 3.10, lxde, xfce and I use GDM. I tried to install cinnamon and when I try to start it, There's nothing on my screen. How could I help more for fix this bug? 👍

EDIT: both, hw acelerated and non hw acelerated have the problem

EDIT 2: FIXED IN 2.0.2-1 AND GNOME 3.10

[clfarron4]

Hi, have you tried a different Display Manager such as LXDM to log-in? I read over on the ArchLinux forums that there are many various problems with GNOME 3.10.

The logic I am playing here is that if you can log into Cinnamon with LXDM, then it is a GDM bug, not a Cinnamon bug, but if you can't log-in with LXDM into Cinnamon, it is probably a Cinnamon bug.

[gabboman]

nope, with lxde same problem. At least, with the lastest update (cinnamon 2.xxxx) it shows me the gnome's wallpaper. But I waited sometime, like 2 or 3 minutes, and nothing else happened. What should I do? Thanks

[clfarron4]

Ok, so I got the package upgrade from cinnamon 1.9.2-2 => cinnamon 2.0.2-1 last night, did the upgrade and went to bed. When I booted just now, I had EXACTLY the same problem as you.

This is my thread on the ArchLinux thread about my problem. It includes an excerpt from the journalctl log (commented with C style comments to inform the reader what I was doing) and a x.Org.log output from when I had an up-to-date X server and Cinnamon at version 2.0.2-1.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171136

CURRENT PROPOSED SOLUTION: Downgrade to Cinnamon 1.9.2-2.

REQUEST: Please edit title to "ArchLinux: Cinnamon package 2.0.2-1 => Cinnamon does not start"

[gabboman]

But in the old version it didnt worked neither :S (I think it was 1 9 3?)

2013/10/10 clfarron4 notifications@github.com

Ok, so I got the package upgrade from cinnamon 1.9.2-2 => cinnamon 2.0.2-1
last night, did the upgrade and went to bed. When I booted just now, I had
EXACTLY the same problem as you.

This is my thread on the ArchLinux thread about my problem. It includes an
excerpt from the journalctl log (commented with C style comments to inform
the reader what I was doing) and a x.Org.log output from when I had an
up-to-date X server and Cinnamon at version 2.0.2-1.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171136

CURRENT SOLUTION: Downgrade to Cinnamon 1.9.2-2.

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[clfarron4]

OK, so I've cracked out my second laptop which has a fresh installation of ArchLinux and it has no problems with the upgrade to cinnamon 2.0.2-1.

The difference between the first laptop and the second laptop is that the first one is running an AMD Radeon 6480G with the catalyst driver, where the second is running an Intel Graphics 3000 card.

[leigh123linux]

@clfarron4

Looking at your Xorg log you have a fglrx issue (no surprise there) .

[   204.040] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
[   204.040] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x2000 at 0x7f428f53d000
[   204.040] (EE) 
[   204.040] (EE) Backtrace:
[   204.943] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3d) [0x57f67d]
[   204.943] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x1833e9) [0x5833e9]
[   204.943] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f428e886000+0xf870) [0x7f428e895870]
[   204.943] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/libpciaccess.so.0 (0x7f428eaa4000+0x504e) [0x7f428eaa904e]
[   204.943] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (amd_xs113_int10_x_inb+0x46) [0x7f428c0ebda6]
[   204.943] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f428b845000+0x89fa85) [0x7f428c0e4a85]
[   204.944] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (X86EMU_exec+0xa5) [0x7f428c0d81d5]
[   204.945] (EE) 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (amd_xs113_int10_xf86ExecX86int10+0x46) [0x7f428c0ecf06]
[   204.945] (EE) 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xf86ExecX86int10+0xd) [0x7f428bbce5dd]
[   204.945] (EE) 9: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvbe.so (VBESetVBEMode+0x9d) [0x7f428b1eb65d]
[   204.946] (EE) 10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f428b845000+0x3bcce3) [0x7f428bc01ce3]
[   204.946] (EE) 11: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (atiddxVBESetConsoleMode+0x44) [0x7f428bc01b34]
[   204.947] (EE) 12: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs114_atiddxFreeScreen+0x730) [0x7f428bd60f00]
[   204.947] (EE) 13: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs114_atiddxCloseScreen+0x321) [0x7f428bd60531]
[   204.948] (EE) 14: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f428b845000+0x9074c6) [0x7f428c14c4c6]
[   204.948] (EE) 15: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0xc4efe) [0x4c4efe]
[   204.948] (EE) 16: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x107de6) [0x507de6]
[   204.948] (EE) 17: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x26a47) [0x426a47]
[   204.948] (EE) 18: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f428d909bc5]
[   204.948] (EE) 19: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x26c81) [0x426c81]
[   204.948] (EE) 
[   204.948] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
[   204.949] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[   204.949] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[   204.949] (EE) 
[   204.949] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 

[clfarron4]

leigh123linux wrote:
Looking at your Xorg log you have a fglrx issue (no surprise there) .

The reason I quote it is because it ONLY happens with the cinnamon 2.0.2-1 package installed. There is nothing with any of the cinnamon packages at versions 1.9.x. Actually, this is the first time I've had an error related to the AMD Catalyst driver when it comes to Desktop Environments.

But yeah, I am kind of not surprised about this, considering other peoples' (unrelated) troubles with AMD Catalyst.

[muff1nman]

Also affected by this issue. Works great on my laptop running Intel graphics, but on my desktop with a 6850, cinnamon failed into fallback mode. However, I don't have any errors in my Xorg log. See my log output at the same post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171136

[clfarron4]

Ok, so after some profound rage about why I couldn't get Cinnamon 2.0.2-1 to work, I did a fresh install with Catalyst 13.11, Cinnamon 2.0.2-1 and Linux-ck 3.11.5-1 and it all magically works, despite not working previously with the exact same packages. Not really a solution as such, but I thought I'd tell you all.

[gabboman]

So it will work magically? And if I update my system I could break it. I
think that the problems are related to gnome 3.10 :S

2013/10/15 clfarron4 notifications@github.com

Ok, so after some profound rage about why I couldn't get Cinnamon 2.0.2-1
to work, I did a fresh install with Catalyst 13.11, Cinnamon 2.0.2-1 and
Linux-ck 3.11.5-1 and it all magically works, despite not working
previously with the exact same packages. Not really a solution as such, but
I thought I'd tell you all.

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[muff1nman]

Perhaps another package was updated that fixed the issue when you did a
fresh install?
On Oct 15, 2013 8:07 AM, "clfarron4" notifications@github.com wrote:

Ok, so after some profound rage about why I couldn't get Cinnamon 2.0.2-1
to work, I did a fresh install with Catalyst 13.11, Cinnamon 2.0.2-1 and
Linux-ck 3.11.5-1 and it all magically works, despite not working
previously with the exact same packages. Not really a solution as such, but
I thought I'd tell you all.

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[clfarron4]

@muff1nman : I did upgrade and test to see whether I could get cinnamon 2.0.2-1 working before I did my fresh install today. Also, I kept a copy of the pacman cache from the installation I nuked, because I don't have the bandwidth to download it all again. With the new install, I installed base and base-devel from the internet, set-up the necessary repositories, rebooted and worked from the cache I'd saved before connecting back to the internet and Voila, Cinnamon 2.0.2-1 worked like a purring kitten.

@gabboman : You are using ArchLinux, so you should be expecting breakage. However, on your point, there might be a configuration file that isn't cleaned up/updated which is causing all the trouble, however I've given up looking for it.

[gabboman]

EVERYTHING WORKS NOW! 💃
This is so beautiful. Confirmed, the new version(cinnamon-2.0.2-1) fixes the bug. (I'm using intel hd grafics)

[muff1nman]

I did an upgrade to 2.0.2-2 and still couldn't get it working. On a hunch that it was some wacky config file, I created a new user and was able to run cinnamon. So besides cinnamon still not working for my main user profile, I think this issue can be closed as its probably not related. Should I create a new issue or would someone mind pointing me in the right direction at config files I can look at?

[gabboman]

/home/youruser/.config/cinnamon-session .
I would:
1st: rm -rf ~/.config/cinnamon-session
2nd: chown -R youruser /home/youruser
(I had some problems, like I couldn't change the wallpaper, and that fixed
it)

2013/10/17 muff1nman notifications@github.com

I did an upgrade to 2.0.2-2 and still couldn't get it working. On a hunch
that it was some wacky config file, I created a new user and was able to
run cinnamon. So besides cinnamon still not working for my main user
profile, I think this issue can be closed as its probably not related.
Should I create a new issue or would someone mind pointing me in the right
direction at config files I can look at?

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[muff1nman]

Neither of those worked, but what did work was removing .local/share/cinnamon

[mtwebster]

So can we close this?

[muff1nman]

I think so.