Bug#595200: Parts of the firefox/iceweasel window are completely black

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:18:47PM +0100, Julien Tailleur wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.11-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I full-upgraded my system yesterday

Here I guess you mean you upgraded from stable to testing, or from a
very old testing (before end of april) to current testing.

> and everything is working fine
> apart from firefox (iceweasel). When I open the later, part of the
> windows are covered in black. If I can scroll down and back a page, a
> part which was previously black may now become visible, but if I can't
> scroll the page, there is very little which can be done (resizing the
> window sometime helps).
> 
> Here is a typical example of the problem :
> 
> http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~jtailleu/BlackScreenFirefox.png
> 
> (I don't know how to attach a file with reportbug...). 
> 
> I though it may be an x-related problem but firefox is the only
> application with which I'm having trouble (emacs is fine, openoffice
> is fine, gimp, mplayer, etc...).

Please try upgrading libcairo2 to version 1.8.10-5 from unstable.

Mike