Rebuild rpm mutter - Gnome 3 freezes after 50 days

Posted on Thu 19 July 2018 by Pavlo Khmel

Still there is no update for mutter package to fix this issue.

Solution

Example on CentOS 7.5 minimal:

yum -y group install "Development Tools"
yum -y install rpmdevtools
rpmdev-setuptree
curl -O http://vault.centos.org/7.5.1804/os/Source/SPackages/mutter-3.26.2-13.el7.src.rpm
rpm -ivh mutter-3.26.2-13.el7.src.rpm 
cd rpmbuild/SOURCES/
tar xvf mutter-3.26.2.tar.xz 
vi mutter-3.26.2/src/backends/x11/meta-backend-x11.c -c 115

Replace line 115:

if (device_event->time < priv->latest_evtime)

With line:

if (XSERVER_TIME_IS_BEFORE (device_event->time, priv->latest_evtime))

Rebuild:

mv mutter-3.26.2.tar.xz old_mutter-3.26.2.tar.xz
tar cfJ mutter-3.26.2.tar.xz mutter-3.26.2
yum -y install chrpath 
yum -y install pango-devel 
yum -y install startup-notification-devel 
yum -y install gnome-desktop3-devel 
yum -y install glib2-devel 
yum -y install gtk3-devel 
yum -y install gobject-introspection-devel 
yum -y install libSM-devel 
yum -y install libwacom-devel 
yum -y install libXdamage-devel 
yum -y install libXext-devel 
yum -y install libXfixes-devel 
yum -y install libXi-devel 
yum -y install libXrandr-devel 
yum -y install libXrender-devel 
yum -y install libXcursor-devel 
yum -y install libXcomposite-devel 
yum -y install libxkbcommon-devel 
yum -y install libxkbcommon-x11-devel 
yum -y install libxkbfile-devel 
yum -y install libXtst-devel 
yum -y install mesa-libEGL-devel 
yum -y install mesa-libGLES-devel 
yum -y install mesa-libGL-devel 
yum -y install mesa-libgbm-devel 
yum -y install pam-devel 
yum -y install upower-devel 
yum -y install xkeyboard-config-devel 
yum -y install gtk-doc 
yum -y install gnome-common 
yum -y install libcanberra-devel 
yum -y install gsettings-desktop-schemas-devel
yum -y install pkgconfig
yum -y install json-glib-devel
yum -y install libgudev1-devel 
yum -y install libinput-devel
yum -y install wayland-protocols-devel
yum -y install zenity
yum -y install desktop-file-utils
cd ..
rpmbuild -ba SPECS/mutter.spec 
yum install /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mutter-3.26.2-13.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm