Bug 681196

Summary: Terminal opens with pieces of the background (as do others)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: airlied, ajax, bskeggs, kevin
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-24.20110324git8378443.fc16.x86_64 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2011-03-01 12:25:47 UTC
Created attachment 481604 [details]
Screenshot of a Terminal showing the problem

Description of problem:
See the attached screenshot of a Terminal window. I opened 2 of them, which landed on top of each other. Note  that the top menu bar of Terminal is whited out.

Sometimes firefox has shown similar pieces of background/random decorations, but Terminal seems to be most prone to this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfce4-session-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64
Terminal-0.4.6-3.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
At random, not often.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a window
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Actual results:
Sometimes parts of the background "show through", and move with the window. In the above case, running "clear" in the Terminal fixed this for the text area.

Expected results:


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Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2011-03-01 16:20:27 UTC
Looks like video corruption of some kind. 

What video card/driver are you using there?

Comment 2 Horst H. von Brand 2011-03-01 17:26:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Looks like video corruption of some kind. 
> 
> What video card/driver are you using there?

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 310M] (rev a2)

xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-20.20110224gitbc5dec2.fc16.x86_64 (recently updated to xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-21.20110224gitbc5dec2.fc16.x86_64)

Hasn't happened again...

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2011-03-02 16:45:05 UTC
It's only happened once? 

I guess we could move this over to nouveau component and see if they have any ideas. 
Or just close it until it happens again? 

I don't think it's a xfce4-session issue... more likely a odd video driver corruption.

Comment 4 Horst H. von Brand 2011-03-03 14:44:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> It's only happened once? 

No, it has happened a couple of times, say each two days or so. Just this time it was particularly noticeable and I happened to grab a screenshot.

> I guess we could move this over to nouveau component and see if they have any
> ideas. 

I suppose so. I'm now running Gnome (fallback), and at a point a similar glitch (much smaller, in any case) happened here.

> Or just close it until it happens again? 

I thought the last round of xorg updates had fixed it, but no.

> I don't think it's a xfce4-session issue... more likely a odd video driver
> corruption.

In view that it happened in Gnome too, you are most probably right.

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.0-1.fc16.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-21.20110224gitbc5dec2.fc16.x86_64

Comment 5 Horst H. von Brand 2011-03-03 16:42:31 UTC
Just saw two short-lived glitches while scrolling in Firefox

Comment 6 Horst H. von Brand 2011-03-19 02:10:48 UTC
As part of trying to figure out what is hanging X for me (bug 684907) I disabled the intel_ips kernel module, and I haven't seen any such glitches since.

Comment 7 Horst H. von Brand 2011-04-13 00:39:52 UTC
I haven't seen any glitches for some time now.