RE: Graphics Problems with gnome-shell-3.10.3

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:31 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>  wrote:
> > > I've compiled gnome-3.10.x from source to run on a machine with an intel core-i7 2640m 2.8GHz cpu with 
> > > 8GB RAM and intel hd3000 graphics on 64bit tinycorelinux using a 3.8.13 kernel.
> > >
> > > Using gnome-session/gnome-shell, most things seem to work, but the graphics display is very poor.
> > >
> > > The display background continually turns bright white and dragging any window produces a trail of 
> > > multiple windows behind it. The only way to fix this seems to use the mac/special/windows key to move 
> > > to the "task- switcher" screen and back again.
> > >
> > > Setting CLUTTER_PAINT="disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling" does not seem to help appreciably.
> > >
> > > Are the above problems caused by the graphics not being powerful enough or is it a software problem?
> > >
> > > If it is a software problem, are there any patches available to fix this without moving to 
> > > gnome-3.12.x? The software in use is listed below.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > John
> > > ----------
> > > gnome-session-3.10.1
> > > gnome-shell-3.10.3
> > > mutter-3.10.4
> > > clutter-1.16.2
> > > cogl-1.16.0
> > > xf86-video-intel-2.21.15
> >
> >
> > It's an issue with the background and can be fixed by setting your background to a constant color. You 
> > can also apply the four patches in this bug, but I'm not sure if it will cleanly apply on top of 3.10.x:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722149
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I don't think this is an issue with the background - if I chose a plain colour
> from gnome-backgrounds, it does not improve things - or perhaps I
> misunderstood?
>
> Most of the four patches do not apply cleanly so as an alternative I took
> "backgrounds.js" from gnome-shell-3.13.1, but this did not improve things
> either...

I pasted the error log below, but nothing seems point to what the problem might be?

gnome-session[23858]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Unable to lookup session information for 
process '23858'
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
gnome-session[23858]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Unable to lookup session information for 
process '23858'

(gnome-settings-daemon:23907): media-keys-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to inhibit keypresses: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by 
any .service files

(gnome-settings-daemon:23907): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to connect to colord: Error calling 
StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.ColorManager: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Failed to register AuthenticationAgent
Gjs-Message: JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Mon May 05 2014 19:56:37 GMT+0400 (GMT)

(gnome-shell:23937): GLib-Net-WARNING **: The anchor file name for used with a GTlsFileDatabase must be an 
absolute path, and not relative: path=/usr/local/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_file_get_contents: assertion 'filename != NULL' failed
Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Unable to guess content types on added mount sda2: Gio.IOErrorEnum: mount doesn't 
implement content type guessing
Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Unable to guess content types on added mount sda3: Gio.IOErrorEnum: mount doesn't 
implement content type guessing
Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Unable to guess content types on added mount sdb1: Gio.IOErrorEnum: mount doesn't 
implement content type guessing
Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Unable to guess content types on added mount sdb2: Gio.IOErrorEnum: mount doesn't 
implement content type guessing
Failed to play sound: File or data not found
Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Error loading calendars: Error calling StartServiceByName for 
org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process 
/usr/local/lib/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-calendar-server received signal 5

(gnome-settings-daemon:23907): power-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to inhibit suspend: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by 
any .service files

(gnome-shell:23937): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: [boxed instance proxy GIName:GLib.Error jsobj 0x7fabdd414fd0 
native 0x3989cb0]

(gnome-settings-daemon:23907): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to connect to colord: Error calling 
StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.ColorManager: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Window manager warning: Log level 8: Source ID 501 was not found when attempting to remove it
Window manager warning: Log level 8: Source ID 503 was not found when attempting to remove it
Window manager warning: Log level 8: Source ID 740 was not found when attempting to remove it
Window manager warning: Log level 8: Source ID 742 was not found when attempting to remove it