Bug 885506 - several graphics bugs in gnome-shell
Summary: several graphics bugs in gnome-shell
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-09 21:58 UTC by chris
Modified: 2014-02-05 13:43 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-02-05 13:43:54 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
screenshot with errors in top bar (accessab.) and background image (465.54 KB, image/png)
2012-12-09 21:58 UTC, chris
no flags Details
screenshot with glyph and icon bugs in the top bar (147.10 KB, image/png)
2012-12-09 22:01 UTC, chris
no flags Details

Description chris 2012-12-09 21:58:33 UTC
Created attachment 660454 [details]
screenshot with errors in top bar (accessab.) and background image

Description of problem:
First, the fedora logo is not visible at the gdm login for 90% of the logins. Instead there are some rectangels, squares etc. puzzled at this place.

Second, the accessibility icons are sometimes black squares and are only visible when you mouseover. Sometimes there are also fragments instead of chars in the username, calendar/time and activities text. 

Third, the dialog to change the background image is producing rubbish half the time i use it. no matter what image i chose.

I dont know if it is connected, but I have those 2 errors in /var/log/messages

kernel: [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -12!

and

gdm-simple-slave[710]: WARNING: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.6.2


How reproducible:
Don't know. Currently the fedora logo is missing 90% of the time, the other bugs happen around 50% of the time.

Steps to Reproduce:
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2. -
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Actual results:
graphics bugs

Expected results:
no graphics bugs :)

Additional info:
added two screenshots

Comment 1 chris 2012-12-09 22:01:15 UTC
Created attachment 660455 [details]
screenshot with glyph and icon bugs in the top bar

Comment 2 chris 2013-01-22 10:38:17 UTC
All Problems are still there after Fedora 18 release and a fresh install.

Hardware is working fine under Fedora 17 and Windows.

Comment 3 D. Hugh Redelmeier 2013-01-30 03:26:33 UTC
Have a look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

I have these messages from the same time as the message appears in dmesg:

[ 97766.969] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_schedule_flip:665 fevent[0x6e5f750]
[ 97767.076] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_flip_event_handler:1069 fevent[0x6e5f750] width 2560 pitch 10240 (/4 2560)
[ 97773.012] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_schedule_flip:665 fevent[0x97ce6d0]
[ 97773.112] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_flip_event_handler:1069 fevent[0x97ce6d0] width 2560 pitch 10240 (/4 2560)
[ 97773.117] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_schedule_flip:665 fevent[0xb91b610]
[ 97773.213] (II) RADEON(0): radeon_dri2_flip_event_handler:1069 fevent[0xb91b610] width 2560 pitch 10240 (/4 2560)

(I nave no idea if my problem is related to your problem.)

Comment 4 chris 2013-02-13 16:31:36 UTC
Alt + F2 + 'r' fixes all issues until reboot

Comment 5 D. Hugh Redelmeier 2013-02-15 22:09:21 UTC
This might be related.  There are patches.  I've not tried them.  <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49981>

Comment 6 chris 2013-03-07 18:37:14 UTC
I did not encounter this bug for 2 weeks. Chances are good it is fixed.

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2013-12-21 09:49:21 UTC
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