Graphics lagging since the virtualbox-guest issues yesterday. (edit: added inxi -SGxx)

[Douglas Bondurant]

Hi all, not particularly savvy, so please bear with me.

18.3 64 Cinnamon

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System:    Host:xxxxx-Aspire-V3-472 Kernel: 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) dm: mdm
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Graphics:  Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0a16
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.06hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 256 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0 Direct Rendering: Yes

I updated the virtualbox-guest packages yesterday, dealt with the login-in issues, uninstalled virtualbox, was able to log in, and ever since it seems like my GPU isn't functioning properly. Everything graphics - related is lagging, video from file, streaming video, os animations, even text input. I expect you all will need more info than I've given, so have at it. I'm trying to get this fixed up quickly because the baseball season starts Thursday and the only way I have to watch my team is through streaming... plus, you know, it's generally annoying.

I did upgrade from 18.1 to 18.3 and have vbox again as well as the update to fix the issues that was released yesterday.

Thanks in advance,

DB

[trytip]

maybe this is related to your situation viewtopic.php?f=90&t=266478

[Douglas Bondurant]

No one sounds like they're having the same issues there, but I'll go ahead and post it there too, I guess. I hope posting it in multiple places isn't bad form...

[mank_in]

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GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 256 bits)

You are using software rendering
Intel hardware rendering use Mesa DRI
Do you using video driver PPA

check file : /etc/environment
if you are see line :

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LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

delete it. Save and reboot

[smurphos]

Edit - try the above first and see if that helps if not......

GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 256 bits)

Cinnamon is using software rendering mode rather than your GPU. It might be fixed by a reboot, or possibly trying to reboot with a different kernel. Before we try that it would be good to check your logs for relevant errors.

Assuming your not running Mint as a Virtualbox guest try this to hopefully provide some relevant error messages.

1) xed ~/.xsession-errors to open this file in your text editor. Scroll to the end of the file.

2) Hit Ctrl-Alt-Esc to force a Cinnamon restart.

Edit to fix typo in xed command.

3) Go back to the text editor - if it tells you the file is updated and asks if you want to reload say yes and then copy and paste whatever new lines have been added as a result of the Cinnamon restart into code tags in your reply.

4) Finally run cat ~/.cinnamon/glass.log in a terminal and again copy and paste the output into code tags.

[Luedger_]

As wrote in: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=266431&start=80#p1449961 I've the same problem.

In my /etc/environment is no such line and reboot doesn't help.

.xsession-errors tells me:

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Cinnamon warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3000085 (.xsession-)
Cinnamon warning: Log level 8: Source ID 155 was not found when attempting to remove it
Cjs-Message: JS LOG: About to start Cinnamon
St-Message: cogl npot texture sizes SUPPORTED
Cjs-Message: JS LOG: Cinnamon started at Wed Mar 28 2018 18:17:18 GMT+0200 (CEST)
Cjs-Message: JS LOG: network applet: Cannot find connection for active (or connection cannot be read)

(cinnamon:3259): St-WARNING **: Ignoring length property that isn't a number at line 1526, col 13
openGL version 4.5 detected (GL3 Cogl Driver)
MetaSyncRing disabled: couldn't find required GL extensions, or the minimum safe openGL version was not met
Cinnamon warning: Log level 16: STACK_OP_REMOVE: window 0x8b not in stack
Cjs-Message: JS LOG: Invalid network device type, is 14
Cjs-Message: JS LOG: network applet: Found connection for active

cat ~/.cinnamon/glass.log:

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info t=2018-03-28T16:17:18.875Z Cinnamon.AppSystem.get_default() started in 101 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:18.878Z loading user theme: /usr/share/themes/Linux Mint/cinnamon/cinnamon.css
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:18.891Z added icon directory: /usr/share/themes/Linux Mint/cinnamon
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:18.939Z PlacesManager: Updating devices
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:18.951Z loaded at Wed Mar 28 2018 18:17:18 GMT+0200 (CEST)
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.193Z Loaded applet menu@cinnamon.org in 240 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.199Z Loaded applet show-desktop@cinnamon.org in 5 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.206Z Role locked: panellauncher
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.206Z Loaded applet panel-launchers@cinnamon.org in 6 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.214Z Loaded applet window-list@cinnamon.org in 7 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.221Z Role locked: notifications
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.223Z Loaded applet notifications@cinnamon.org in 8 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.238Z Loaded applet user@cinnamon.org in 14 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.245Z Loaded applet removable-drives@cinnamon.org in 6 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.258Z Loaded applet keyboard@cinnamon.org in 12 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.307Z Loaded applet network@cinnamon.org in 48 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.333Z Loaded applet sound@cinnamon.org in 25 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.345Z Loaded applet power@cinnamon.org in 11 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.353Z Loaded applet systray@cinnamon.org in 7 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.372Z Loaded applet calendar@cinnamon.org in 18 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.379Z Loaded applet windows-quick-list@cinnamon.org in 6 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.393Z Loaded applet weather@mockturtl in 13 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.393Z AppletManager.init() started in 441 ms
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.396Z Cinnamon took 628 ms to start
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.811Z Adding systray: unknown (24x24px)
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.812Z Adding systray: mintupdate.py (24x24px)
info t=2018-03-28T16:17:19.813Z Hiding systray: network

Any ideas?

[mank_in]

maybe libgl1-mesa removed?
see with package manager if libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx still installed

or you can try reconfigure xserver-xorg

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[Luedger_]

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System:    Host: XXX Kernel: 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) dm: mdm
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Graphics:  Card: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1912
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.2.8 Direct Rendering: Yes

Yeah! Reconfiguration worked for me

[Douglas Bondurant]

not sure what worked, but everything's fine now, thanks all!

[Luedger_]

Sadly, the problem ist back I dont know why. After booting today it shows me - again:

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System:    Host: XXX Kernel: 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) dm: mdm
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Graphics:  Card: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1912
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0, 256 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.2.8 Direct Rendering: Yes

I played with different Kernel-versions, reinstalled and reconfigured xserver-xorg again, but it didnt make any differences

Edit: I'm confused. I only restarted Cinnamon via Ctrl+Alt+Esc and the driver is back to work.

[smurphos]

Edit: I'm confused. I only restarted Cinnamon via Ctrl+Alt+Esc and the driver is back to work.

When you next reboot and log-in check what session is set by default before logging in. I'm wondering if somehow the software rendering session has been set as default?

How you check will depend on whether you are on slickgreeter/lightDM or MDM. IIRC correctly it's a pretty obvious choice in MDM - is slick greeter you need to click the little cinnamon icon next to the username.

[12stepMSx]

Edit - try the above first and see if that helps if not......

GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 256 bits)

Cinnamon is using software rendering mode rather than your GPU. It might be fixed by a reboot, or possibly trying to reboot with a different kernel. Before we try that it would be good to check your logs for relevant errors.

Assuming your not running Mint as a Virtualbox guest try this to hopefully provide some relevant error messages.

1) xed ~/.xsessions-errors to open this file in your text editor. Scroll to the end of the file.

2) Hit Ctrl-Alt-Esc to force a Cinnamon restart.

3) Go back to the text editor - if it tells you the file is updated and asks if you want to reload say yes and then copy and paste whatever new lines have been added as a result of the Cinnamon restart into code tags in your reply.

4) Finally run cat ~/.cinnamon/glass.log in a terminal and again copy and paste the output into code tags.

I got
Krell ~ $ xed ~/.xsessions-errors

** (xed:19679): WARNING **: Error when getting information for file '/home/ron/.xsessions-errors': No such file or directory

** (xed:19679): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Error setting file metadata: No such file or directory

WHAT does this mean?

[smurphos]

Sorry a typo in my post - the command should be xed ~/.xsession-errors

Edit to add.....someone has noted it is just a case of the Software rendering session being selected as default at logon....viewtopic.php?f=47&t=266431&start=120#p1452222