Bug 864925 - Glyph corruption with switch user
Summary: Glyph corruption with switch user
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-10 12:04 UTC by Robert de Rooy
Modified: 2013-01-27 09:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-01-27 09:02:43 UTC
Type: Bug
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screenshot with severe glyph corruption (784.59 KB, image/png)
2012-10-10 12:04 UTC, Robert de Rooy
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Description Robert de Rooy 2012-10-10 12:04:40 UTC
Created attachment 624822 [details]
screenshot with severe glyph corruption

Description of problem:
ThinkPad T410 with Intel IronLake graphics

Using the Switch User function in Gnome, causes Glyph corruption.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.8-1.fc17.x86_64
kernel-3.5.6-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
The corruption may not be instantly noticeable, it may take a switch or two to occur. Also, it does not seem to effect the Gnome Shell itself, but it does effect Firefox and terminal windows.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to Gnome Shell
2. Switch User
3. launch firefox and browse a bit
4. Logout
5. switch back to the first user
  
Actual results:
Glyph corruption. Severity of the corruption depends, sometimes it is minimal, other times it can be quite severe.

Expected results:
No glyph corruption

Additional info:
This corruption was introduced with an update along the way, as I did not experience it on F17 without updates.

There are no errors in the kernel or xorg log files

Comment 1 Jean-Philippe Leboeuf 2012-11-02 09:04:33 UTC
Description: 
Same kind of problem here, corrupted glyphs (or disappearing glyphs) with Firefox and Terminal, but also gedit. Problem appears progressively, but faster when locking screen or suspending a lot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
xorg-x11-drv-intel / x86_64 / 2.20.8 / 1.fc17
kernel / x86_64 / 3.6.3 / 1.fc17

Hardware: 
Integrated Intel GMA X4500 GPU 

Additional info: 
I think also that I was not experiencing this glyph corruption a few updates away. But a few updates away, I was dealing with another bug in xorg-x11-drv-intel, "Bug 845803 - wrong monitor resolution on wake from suspend with kernel 3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64" <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845803>.

Comment 2 Jean-Philippe Leboeuf 2012-11-20 16:32:24 UTC
Nomore problems at this time...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
xorg-x11-drv-intel / x86_64 / 2.20.10 / 2.fc17
kernel / x86_64 / 3.6.6 / 1.fc17

I do not know if it's linked, but I get blank text with Firefox inside the URL dropdown of the navigation toolbar, from session start.

Comment 3 Robert de Rooy 2013-01-27 09:02:43 UTC
With recent updates the problem no longer occurs, as such closing this bug report.


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