beryl stopped working after last deep world update

noclear2000

hi!

i had beryl working. after my last update deep world it refuse to start or actually it kind of works:

when started i can rotate the cube but everything that should be shown on the desktop is not visible to me.

but everything works the way it is intended to. i just can't see it. for example i can open a terminal (via shortcut) and execute commands. (killall kdm or reboot,....)
and another interessting thing: the mouse cursor adapts to its context as usual. if i open up a kwrite window the "standard"-cursor turns into a "text"-cursor if i move the mouse over the (invisible) window an it changes back if i leave the window.

it works, but i can't see it. just a "screenshot"...

the following packages were updated:

libXfixes (x11/libs)
inputproto (x11/proto)
randrproto (x11/proto)
libXi (x11/libs)
libXrandr (x11/libs)
libXdamage (x11/libs)
libXcomposite (x11/libs)

dbus-glib (dev/libs)
man (sys-apps)
alsa-headers (media-sound)

any ideas what could cause that problem or how to fix it??

thank in advance for your help.

darius_w · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Norway

The same problem her, I'm running on nvidia-drivers, and a friend of mine, with radeon and aiglx.

Nothing appears on the screen until I move the window, then the new status show. It just look like a screenshot, until I move the window.

I didn't notice what packages has been updated, because I was too busy concentating on the new mplayer USE-flags :oops:

EDIT: Sorry for the typos, but I can't see whats going on before I move to the next "screenshot".
EDIT 2: I'm in kwin now, a killall beryl got me switched, and I also fixed the typos. Kwin seems to get along fine.

golding · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem exactly, however, I also failed to note what packages had been updated.

I vaguely remember the libX? preface in the update lineup and it would seem they are the problem.

Is worthwhile to re-emerge the Xorg modular packages to an earlier version?

****EDIT***
A fix is here; https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554200-highlight-beryl.html
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sonicbhoc · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject:

Someone else had a thread marked solved for the same thing. There were 3 X libraries that had to be masked... but I can't remember where to find that thread. Sorry. ^_^;;
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anton_kg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 93

The same here, I just did emerge -DNu xorg and the follow packages got upgraded:

1176999211: >>> emerge (1 of 7) x11-libs/libXfixes-4.0.3 to /
1176999277: >>> unmerge success: x11-libs/libXfixes-4.0.1
1176999277: >>> emerge (2 of 7) x11-proto/randrproto-1.2.0 to /
1176999287: >>> unmerge success: x11-proto/randrproto-1.1.2
1176999287: >>> emerge (3 of 7) x11-proto/inputproto-1.4 to /
1176999296: >>> unmerge success: x11-proto/inputproto-1.3.2
1176999296: >>> emerge (4 of 7) x11-libs/libXi-1.1.0 to /
1176999335: >>> unmerge success: x11-libs/libXi-1.0.1
1176999335: >>> emerge (5 of 7) x11-libs/libXdamage-1.1.1 to /
1176999355: >>> unmerge success: x11-libs/libXdamage-1.0.3
1176999355: >>> emerge (6 of 7) x11-libs/libXrandr-1.2.1 to /
1176999379: >>> unmerge success: x11-libs/libXrandr-1.1.1
1176999379: >>> emerge (7 of 7) x11-libs/libXcomposite-0.3.1 to /
1176999399: >>> unmerge success: x11-libs/libXcomposite-0.3

It should be one of these X libraries ..

anton_kg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 93

ok, the thread is here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554200-highlight-beryl.html
bugreport with a workaround:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175196

and the solution
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174959#c7

Just rebuild x11-base/xorg-server and it should start to work again.

theluckyone17 · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 54

Figured I'd toss in that rebuild xorg-server worked fine for me, too.

noclear2000 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:54 am Post subject:

rebuilf of xorg-server did the job for me, too.

thanks a lot to everybody posted infos!

darius_w · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Norway

It did not do the job for me :-(

.

I even tried to re-emerge the whole beryl, xorg-x11, libX11 and nvidia-drivers, with no luck. I also tried to reboot the computer (!), but beryl only want to acknowledge kwin WM.

Maybe I shall try downgrade some of the libraries that got upgraded?!

Edit:
Actually, i did mask

noclear2000 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:40 pm Post subject:

try to do a:

zarec99 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject:

try this thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554200-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-beryl.html