Bug 828500
| Summary: | Icons and Decorations go black | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Fred Weigel <fred_weigel> | ||||||||
| Component: | xorg-x11-drv-intel | Assignee: | Adam Jackson <ajax> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | ajax, xgl-maint | ||||||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-07-31 17:44:30 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||
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Happened again, but this time it was the roll-up icon, depressed state only (so kind of hard to capture). Replaced by black. After 6 hours uptime. Created attachment 589986 [details]
An example of multiple icons being replaced with black
[fred@dejah ~]$ uptime
14:57:07 up 6:45, 7 users, load average: 1.10, 1.22, 1.22
[fred@dejah ~]$
Look at the upper right; there is an instance of SMPlayer, in pinned and rolled up mode. Note the active pin and active roll-up icons are both black.
So, after 6 hours, 45 minutes uptime, the pin icon was replaced by black, ALL window decoration icons are black when depressed, and the roll-up icon is black (pin and roll-up in activated state. In "normal" state, all icons are still properly visible.
This happened sometime in the past two hours (checked two hours ago, was ok).
Application programs run:
smplayer
firefox
5 terminals
thunar
and that's it!
This has been reported to me on Fedora 16 as well.
Created attachment 590512 [details]
Illustration when title bar goes black
Here's what it looks like when the title bars go black. You can't see it, but the icon depressed state of all the window control icons is also black, the pin icon on the left is black when activated, the roll-up icon is black when activated.
However the close (x) icon is completely normal.
From
[fred@dejah ~]$ uptime
16:12:23 up 1:45, 2 users, load average: 1.71, 2.12, 2.74
[fred@dejah ~]$
we see the uptime is only 1 hour, 45 minutes.
A third report of this has come in - now it's 2 Fedora 16, and 1 Fedora 17 (all three machines are Acer D257 Netbooks, with in-built Intel 915 graphics).
Another round of updates -- and this still happens.
Started poking at this a bit. The Atom 570 used in the Acer D257 is identified as a "Pineview GM" chipset. By default RelaxedFencing is enabled for this device.
I have disabled RelaxedFencing by adding a file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-display-debug.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "intel"
Option "RelaxedFencing" "off"
EndSection
# Bug 828500
# Try removing RelaxedFencing in an effort to get rid of black icons
I will run with this option for a few days, and report the results.
No go. With RelaxedFencing off, it happened again. This time, I get an additional line in the Xorg.0.log file: [ 6977.400] (II) XKB: Reusing cached keymap [ 12815.742] [mi] Increasing EQ size to 512 to prevent dropped events. [root@dejah log]# Interesting, that, but probably not meaningful. Removing driver option shown above. This netbook loads the "acer_wmi" driver acer_wmi 32324 0 sparse_keymap 13526 1 acer_wmi rfkill 21384 4 cfg80211,acer_wmi wmi 18697 1 acer_wmi video 18935 2 i915,acer_wmi which may have something to do with this (yes, it shouldn't). Attempting a blacklist of this driver, and test. Blacklisting the acer_wmi driver did not cure the problem. However, lid button, and led reporting is improved, so I would recommend that the acer_wmi driver be blacklisted for the Acer D257 netbook (also, the Acer AOA110 and AOA150 models). This message is a reminder that Fedora 17 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 17. 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 '17'. 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 17'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 17 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 to Fedora 17's end of life. 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. Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 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. |
Created attachment 589267 [details] Upper Right maximized button is black Description of problem: On my Acer D257 (GMA 3150 graphics), with Fedora 17, XFCE4, using compositing: When the system is left to run for "long enough" (for 1 to 6 hours), icons can be set to black, or window title bars will be set to black. This affects SPECIFIC icons (eg. the maximum button). Once black, it is black in all windows, until the machine is reset. Tested on two separate machines. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux dejah 3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 21 22:32:19 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux with all patches applied (as of June 4, 2012) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into XFCE4 2. open some windows 3. wait Actual results: Icons or windows title bars are black Expected results: Expect to see icons, or proper title bar Additional info: Using xorg intel driver, no error log indications. May well be a defect in XFCE. See screen shot for what it (possibly) looks like. After 5 hour uptime, the MAXIMIZED icon button was set to black.