Bug 1236402 - Characters missing on screen
Summary: Characters missing on screen
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-06-28 16:06 UTC by Kåre Løvgren
Modified: 2016-07-19 19:51 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-07-19 19:51:24 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Screen shot from Nautilus' "Preferences" dialog (20.83 KB, image/png)
2015-06-28 16:06 UTC, Kåre Løvgren
no flags Details
Screen shot, LibreOffice Calc (26.35 KB, image/png)
2015-06-28 16:07 UTC, Kåre Løvgren
no flags Details

Description Kåre Løvgren 2015-06-28 16:06:41 UTC
Created attachment 1044068 [details]
Screen shot from Nautilus' "Preferences" dialog

Description of problem:
Some characters are missing on screen (see attached screen dumps)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora: 4.0.5-300.fc22.x86_64
        xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.11-2.fc22.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Actual results:
Text in menus, window title bars, in documents etc. have some characters missing (whitespace shown instead)

Additional info:
Started after update to Fedora 22.

Same symptoms as bug #1194298, except that I had no problems on F20 and F21.
Rebooting does not make a difference.

Comment 1 Kåre Løvgren 2015-06-28 16:07:43 UTC
Created attachment 1044070 [details]
Screen shot, LibreOffice Calc

Comment 2 Bill C. Riemers 2015-06-29 13:09:32 UTC
I don't see missing characters anymore in Fedora 22, but I still occassionally see substituted characters.   For example I was viewing a wikipedia article the other day where all the "if" and "iff" character sequences where replaced with some type of heart symbol.   Copy and paste into gedit revealed the correct characters.     I'm thinking his might be a memory overwrite issue in a library such as libiconv rather than a rendering issue.

Comment 3 Kåre Løvgren 2015-07-01 18:50:40 UTC
A new situation:
The missing letters situation got so bad, that the PC was practically unusable.
A hunch I had got me to remove the xorg.conf file I had to create as a workaround for bug #1215444, and it seems like it solved the missing letters problem (and the issue from the old bug seems to have disappeared; everything looks OK without this file).

Unfortunately, the system still hangs after a while as described in bug #1224808.

Comment 4 Marcel Ziswiler 2015-09-01 22:50:18 UTC
I get this on my fresh install of Fedora 22 on an ASUS P9X79 WS with a Xeon E5-2650L and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti running straight default gnome on top of nouveau. Real annoying! What's going on?

gnome-shell-3.16.3-1.fc22.x86_64
kernel-4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.11-2.fc22.x86_64

Just let me know what other information might be useful to solve this issue.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 19:51:24 UTC
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.

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