Re: Screen all blank?



On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 12:25 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 22:30 -0500, Yu Feng wrote:
> > Hi all;
> > 
> > I installed gnome-shell with jhbuild along the steps on the wiki; then
> > started the shell with scripts/start-in-Xephyr.
> > 
> > But apparently I am getting a huge blank pixmap with these debugging
> > informations on the console:
> > 
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "xlogo32" to type Pixmap
> >     JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Error: No JS module 'signals' found in search path
> >     JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '0'
> >     JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = 'gjs_throw'
> >     JS ERROR: !!!     stack = 'Error("No JS module 'signals' found in search path")@:0
> > ("No JS module 'signals' found in search path")@gjs_throw:0
> > @/home/rainwoodman/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:6
> 
> This is probably why you are getting the blank output.. if
> initialization of the Javascript code fails, nothing much will show up.
> Why this is, I have less of an idea. signals is shipped along with gjs.
> Does:
> 
>  ~/gnome-shell/install/share/gjs-1.0/signals.js
> 
> Exist?
> 
> > Window manager warning: Log level 16: NOTE: Not using GLX TFP!
> 
> This is normal for start-in-Xepyhr. This certainly needs to be fixed to
> warn only once.
> 
> > I was building at rev 164.
> > And the computer is sort of old with a radeon R200 or R100 card:
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
> > M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500];
> > I am no 3D folk but compiz works (though pretty sluggish) on the card.
> 
> An R100. I expect performance to about like compiz - not pleasant to
> use, but should come up. Amount of video memory matters quite a bit. In
> any case, I think your problem is the Javascript error.
> 
Indeed. After switching to a jhbuild shell the signals become happy.

Are there any catch/try mechanism or global flag to let gjs ignore the
fatals? 

BTW: if librsvg is not found, the script also terminates with '.svg'
file not recognized.

Regards,

Yu
> - Owen
> 
> 



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