[SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

Question

Hardware: Nvidia NVS 3100M, latest drivers 260.19.36
Software: latest pacman -Suy
On startup, right after the login, X (or Gnome?) crashes and I see the login screen again.
After I disable compiz, I am able to use Gnome desktop.
When I start compiz via fusion-icon, it crashes everything again.
Has anyone seen this?
Any clues?
==== Update =====
I solved this by re-installing the same nvidia driver I had. During install it detected that the original installation "has been altered".
Last edited by softtower (2011-02-16 22:09:49)

Answer 1

That's a scary thought: what if I'm the only one with this problem... :-)
Let me answer your questions guys (and thank you for replying).
First of all, I don't have anything monitor-related in my xorg.conf.d directory. Here is what I have there:
t510 ~: ll /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
total 20K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Aug 24 06:45 10-evdev.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 377 Jun 21 2010 10-quirks.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 443 Nov 13 10:36 10-synaptics.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 267 Nov 19 03:48 10-synaptics.conf.pacnew
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107 Sep 2 19:39 20-nouveau.conf
Second, I do pacman updates maybe once a month. So I had 600+ MB of downloads and something like a hundred packages, including xorg itself. However, I do know that the kernel and nvidia's proprietary driver are both latest and haven't changed.
If I delete xorg.conf, arch will try to look for noveau open-source driver and will fail because I do not have it installed: it doesn't manage power well to be used on a laptop.
Looking into Xorg.log I see this:
[ 102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
[ 102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
[ 102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If
[ 102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try
[ 102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
[ 102.582] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU NVS 3100M (GT218) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
I will try to reinstall the same nvidia driver I have to see what happens.