Compiz enabled, Gnome won't start

[chad1]

Hey, I have compiz installed in sabayon4 x86_64 and when i enable acceleration and reboot, gnome won't start.

I have ATI radeon 200m and i have the ati drivers selected in eselect.

I'm also using kernel 2.6.27

I've had to re-install a few times, but at one point the 3d desktop was working.

Any1 able to help me out?
Thanks

[micia]

if you type in a console

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fusion-icon


does compiz starts up without any error output?

[chad1]

hey Micia.

i did that in terminal, and it crashed my session. gave me a blank screen and i had to re-login

The output in terminal was very brief before it crashed so I couldn't read it

[micia]

We meet again chad1
well, if you can afford another crash, you could try to load compiz and redirect the output to a file with:

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fusion-icon &> fusion-log.txt


(to restart the XServer press Ctrl+Alt+backspace)

this will send the output of the compiz boot to the file "fusion-log.txt",
be sure that fusion-log.txt in your current directory, or you will override it!
Also, you could take a look here:
http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Hardware/ATI

[chad1]

So this is a little strange, but i went to navigate to my / directory to see if there was a fusion-log, but i can't open my home folder! and right clicking on my desktop does nothing.

Oh, and i just noticed all the desktop icons are gone

[micia]

The fusion-log.txt file should have been created into the directory where you opened the terminal in,
the default one is the home directory (/home/your_user_name/).
the left click thing is rather strange, try to logout and login again or reboot,
probably the failed switch to compiz have destabilized the session

[chad1]

Ok, I will try a reboot. I'm just updating a couple packages right now.

Is there a way to enable to boot verbose only and no graphical boot? i want to see whats going on during boot, but it loads to fast, i just see splash screen and then it starts

[chad1]

Okay, this isn't really a compiz problem anymore, but i restarted my computer and i still can't open my home folder.

Maybe do i need to re-install gnome?

[chad1]

heres my output of fusion-log.txt i opened it through terminal

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GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
 * Detected Session: gnome
 * Searching for installed applications...
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
compiz (dbus) - Error: dbus_bus_get error: Did not receive a reply. Possible ca$
compiz (dbus) - Error: InitObject failed
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'dbus'
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are t$
fusion-icon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :$
 * No GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap with direct rendering context
 ... present with indirect rendering, exporting: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
 * Setting option Indirect Rendering to True
 * Using the GTK Interface
 * Decorator "" is invalid.
 * Setting decorator to GTK Window Decorator ("gtk-window-decorator --replace")
 * Starting Compiz
... executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --indi$
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 2503 requests (2501 known processed) with 114 events remaining.

[micia]

Does it gives you some sort of error message when you try to open your /home directory, such as "Permission denied" or something?

[EDIT] I found out that Nautilus may have been disabled, try to start manually nautilus from a terminal:

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nautilus