Bug 742776
| Summary: | [rv515] font rendering corruption in gnome shell | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki> |
| Component: | mesa | Assignee: | Dave Airlie <airlied> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 22 | CC: | ajax, ansla80, awilliam, dbranchini, db, fedora, itamar, joeljward, johnh, marci_r, metherid, mitch.a.williams, pda2, pstadt, richardfearn, rmomota, stuart, swt, thierry.vignaud, walters |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2016-07-19 10:04:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Maciek Borzecki
2011-10-02 18:40:53 UTC
Created attachment 525951 [details]
another example, F16 after updating from beta RC4
Created attachment 525952 [details]
dmesg
Created attachment 525953 [details]
Xorg log
This is a driver issue. clutter is a GL abstraction layer so the applications don't need to write GL directly, clutter itself doesn't do any rendering Just noticed that Qt based apps do not show any sign of glyph corruption. So it does seem that only Gtk2/Gtk3 apps are affected. Same problem here on f16. I found a simple workaround: You can "correct" the broken fonts by starting gnome-tweak-tool, switch to fonts section and change Hinting and/or Antialiasing forward and backward. This fixes the broken rendering. Interestingly, I do see corruptions in mesa-* 7.11.2-1.fc16 but I don't see them in mesa-* 7.11-8 (I don't know where to get the releases in between). So, for me, the temporary solution is to downgrade to 7.11 which is, interestingly, the version you are reporting to fail. My problem disappeared with the latest update. Created attachment 550877 [details]
Screenshot font rendering error with ATI Technologies Inc RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] and latest stable gallium driver
I've been running KDE for four months now and not a single time did the font corruption happen again. However, using F17, the problem appeared after a couple of minutes of gnome-terminal usage. Again, the fonts are corrupted on widgets from Gtk2/3 and GS panel & activities screen widgets. I've been using KDE with desktop effects (opengl backend) and font antialiasing enabled, the problem does not appear. IIRC Gtk*/Clutter uses pango for font layout and rendering, may it be the culprit here? I've the same problem with different behaviour. After some minutes my computer is turned on, some parts of the font get missing making some chars unreadable at all. It just comes like that suddenly while I'm working. Using tweak tool to switch from rgba to grayscale resolves. After boot it may happens again during the grayscale, if so I just switch from grascale back to rgba and resolved once again. It means I keep switching from rgba to grayscale and vice versa all the time. It happened once I switched to resolve the issue and some minutes later it happened to grayscale too. So it means at this point both font rendering methods are corrupted. Only a boot will resolve it. This is a very ugly issue and it does not make any sense to happen in an OS nowadays. Please fix this as soon as possible. Thank you. Created attachment 617767 [details]
Screenshot from 2012-09-26 16:26:36.png
Comment on attachment 617767 [details]
Screenshot from 2012-09-26 16:26:36.png
Notice the corrupted font on the top menu bar, inside applications it's rendered correctly.
Created attachment 663136 [details]
font corruption in gtk3 apps, fedora 18
Issue still present under F18
Still present on F18 for me too. Nvidia GeForce GTS 450. Problem shows up on the top bar on my screen (including the icons but not the clock) and occasionally in system menus. Enabling "Large Text" in Universal Access fixes the problem but this is not an acceptable workaround. This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping (fedora18)(GTX 240m) I had corrupted font as well however I switched on large font, and then switch it back off and the font now displays correctly. Will report back if the font gets corrupted again. Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. Dave, as stated above, it happens on FC18 too (Comment #14 to 17). I've seen it too (last week on FC18), as well as other distros. So I think it should be reopen. Indeed, it only affect Gtk+ apps, not Qt ones. And true, switching font in gnome-tweak-tool "workaround" it... But it's still a bug. Saw it on F19 last weekend as well. Thierry and Olivier, can you please specify what graphics cards you are using? The original report was for an ATI adapter, but later comments talk about NVIDIA adapters. That's obviously a very different situation. If you have NVIDIA cards it would probably be better to open a new bug (or check for existing reports against xorg-x11-drv-nouveau). For me its ATI. # lspci -s01:00.0 -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV530LE [Radeon X1600/X1650 PRO] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Device 0880 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45 Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at ff6f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] I/O ports at a000 [size=256] Expansion ROM at ff6c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: radeon Thanks. RV530's pretty close to RV515, seems reasonable to re-open this report for now. Maintainer, this is reproducible in F19 with an RV530. Saw it recently on (a couple of) Fedora 20 with RV515 # lspci -s01:00.0 -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV515 [Radeon X1300/X1550] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Device 3000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] I/O ports at b000 [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at f0000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon Just happened again on a F20 up to date (kernel-3.17.3-200.fc20.x86_64) The workaround suggested by comment #6 still works. Also happening here on F20. It takes about 3 days for the font corruption to show up. My work around is to restart gnome-shell with Alt-F2 r I have Intel graphics. Based on the other reports, it doesn't look like the graphics controller has anything to do with it. Other applications continue to work correctly while gnome-shell has corrupted fonts. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 022f Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45 Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at eff8 [size=8] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 gnome-shell-3.10.4-9.fc20.i686 The amount of time before gnome-shell fails is eerily consistent. $ uptime 23:30:03 up 3 days, 15:40, 6 users, load average: 0.25, 0.20, 0.16 $ lk gnome-shell RUSER PID STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 Dec09 ? 0:15/ussystemd/systemd --switched-root --system -stem --deserialize 23 root 873 Dec09 ? 0:00├/usr/sbin/gdm root 1115 Dec09 ? 0:00│└/usxec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnorg/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_0 root 1667 Dec09 ? 0:01│ └gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password] stuart 1683 Dec09 ? 0:01│ └gnome-session #stuart 1832 Dec09 ? 120:58│ ├/usr/bin/gnome-shell #stuart 1920 Dec09 ? 0:00├/usr/libexec/gnome-shell-calendar-server Just installed Fedora 21 last night. Today I got corrupt text on menus and titles after installing and launching PlayonLinux. Not sure if there is a corrolation, but thats when it showed up. Tried changing settings in Gnome-tweak as suggested and that did not work. So I tried changing the font and that solved my problem. Intel graphics here as well with the i915 module. I am seeing this bug in gtk2 applications (mostly firefox and geany) on Fedora 21 for ca. 6 months. It never affected gtk3 applications so far. What I see is: When my gnome session is running for a longer time sometimes some random glyphs get rendered incorrectly. After I change the font or other font-related properties (e.g. from normal to bold or italic) they are drawn correctly. I am seeing this bug about once or twice a week. As a workaround I exit my gnome session or reboot the system. The hardware this bug occured on has an intel iGPU with i915 kernel module loaded. No other GPU installed. This could also be a pango bug. There are similiar bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20603 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28151 This message is a reminder that Fedora 20 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 20. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '20'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 20 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. This bug is still present in F21 and (rarely) in F22. Could someone please change the version? Done. Fedora 20 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-06-23. Fedora 20 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. looks like there was some script overlap there... Now I am seeing this bug in F22 even with firefox (built for Gtk3). Also have a look at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88584 (intel GPU) Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |