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[Eugene San <eugenesan@xxxxxxxxx>]

ruediger.kupper:
Acceleration check can be skipped by passing  --disable-acceleration-check to gnome-session

chris-good:
I might be wrong but by 3D acceleration, VM hypervizors usually mean H/W 3D offloading to host GPU.
Also usually VM para-virtualized drivers support direct rendering and all most X11 extensions which can be used by Mesa (pure software or LLVM-pipe) to simulate 3D.
Regarding Unity, it uses Compiz which also supports Mesa simulated 3D (at least in recent versions).
Environments like NX/VNC/RDP and etc, usually lack direct rendering and most X11 extensions therefor 3D simulation is broken.
It's sad that this fact is ignored by distributions and desktop environments developers and we are enforced to deal with it here :-(

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Title:
  gnome-session-flashback fails to start without hardware acceleration
  in cloud/remote environments (Forwarded-X/XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting)

Status in The GNOME 2 Session Manager:
  New
Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This bug will cause static grey or black screen instead of openning
  remote session using Forwarded-X/XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting from
  x2goclient, rdpclient(reminna/vinagre/mstsc), SSH, VNC, NOMACHINE and
  etc.

  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  2) apt-cache policy gnome-session
  gnome-session:
    Installed: 3.9.90-0ubuntu12
    Candidate: 3.9.90-0ubuntu12
    Version table:
   *** 3.9.90-0ubuntu12 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  apt-cache policy gnome-session-fallback
  gnome-session-fallback:
    Installed: 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12.1
    Candidate: 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12.1
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12.1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:3.8.0-1ubuntu11 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

  apt-cache policy xrdp
  xrdp:
    Installed: 0.6.0-1
    Candidate: 0.6.0-1
    Version table:
   *** 0.6.0-1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  apt-cache policy remmina
  remmina:
    Installed: 1.0.0-4ubuntu3
    Candidate: 1.0.0-4ubuntu3
    Version table:
   *** 1.0.0-4ubuntu3 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  apt-cache policy vinagre
  vinagre:
    Installed: 3.10.2-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.10.2-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.10.2-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) What is expected to happen is when one installs xrdp on the host
  and attempts to use remmina or vinagre on a Ubuntu 14.04 client to RDP
  in, it works.

  4) What happens instead is it shows a gray static screen as per attached screenshot. This would appear an issue with gnome-session as per client log:
  cat .xsession-errors.old
  Script for ibus started at run_im.
  Script for auto started at run_im.
  Script for default started at run_im.
  init: indicator-application main process ended, respawning
  init: indicator-application main process ended, respawning
  init: indicator-application respawning too fast, stopped
  Xsession: X session started for  at Sun Jul 20 15:25:59 CDT 2014
  X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
    Major opcode of failed request:  109 (X_ChangeHosts)
    Value in failed request:  0x5
    Serial number of failed request:  6
    Current serial number in output stream:  8
  localuser:moniker being added to access control list
  X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
    Major opcode of failed request:  109 (X_ChangeHosts)
    Value in failed request:  0x5
    Serial number of failed request:  6
    Current serial number in output stream:  8
  Script for ibus started at run_im.
  Script for auto started at run_im.
  Script for default started at run_im.
  Script for ibus started at run_im.
  Script for auto started at run_im.
  Script for default started at run_im.
  gnome-session-is-accelerated: No composite extension.
  gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256
  gnome-session-is-accelerated: No composite extension.
  gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256

  ** (process:2565): WARNING **: software acceleration check failed:
  Child process exited with code 1

  ** (x-session-manager:2565): CRITICAL **: We failed, but the fail
  whale is dead. Sorry....

  The following is not a WORKAROUND, create /etc/xorg.conf :
  Section "Device"
     Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
     Driver      "Intel"
     Option      "DRI" "False"
  EndSection

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gnome-session 3.9.90-0ubuntu12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Jul 20 15:35:23 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-22 (28 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: gnome-session
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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