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GDM, GNOME Shell, etc. break when there are stale caches

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Message #33 received at 36924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, L p R n d n <guix <at> lprndn.info>
Subject: Re: bug#36924: Mesa/GDM/XFCE
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:44:54 +0200

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 01:40:09PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Thanks for the report, Andreas!

and thanks for the time spent putting me on the good track!

> Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> skribis:
> > xfwm4: ../mesa-19.1.4/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/intel_mipmap_tree.c:1293: intel_miptree_match_image: Zusicherung »image->TexObject->Target == mt->target« nicht erfüllt.
> That’s the likely root cause to me (in which case it may be unrelated to
> this <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36924>, after all.)
> I found these bug reports:
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107117
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1678334
> 
> In both cases, Xfce and Mesa’s i965 drivers are involved, as is the case
> on your machine.  The 2nd bug report includes an xfwm4 patch, even.

The first one also contains a patch, but it has been integrated into later
mesa releases, in particular the one we are using.

> I wonder if Xfce before the recent updates (so before
> 8549e0ca6fd68a57253471436de49b88b2d47e64) works better.
> Andreas, if you feel like it, could you try:
>   guix pull --commit=97ce5964fb5d52cf2151fea685e28fa23a98b264
>   sudo guix system reconfigure …

Indeed, the problem disappears with this commit; I can log in and out
and in again with xfce working. So I am cc-ing the author of the commits
updating xfce, maybe they have an answer!

And I will try to look at the patch in the second report you reference
above.

Thanks!

Andreas

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