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

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 01:12:08PM +0200, Julien Tailleur wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> >Here I guess you mean you upgraded from stable to testing, or from a
> >very old testing (before end of april) to current testing.
> 
> I upgraded from testing to testing. The second possibility (no
> upgrade since end of april on my desktop) is however possible.
> 
> >Please try upgrading libcairo2 to version 1.8.10-5 from unstable.
> 
> I just did that:
> 
> root at rotule:/home/julien# dpkg -l libcairo2 | grep libcairo
> ii  libcairo2                            1.8.10-5 The Cairo 2D
> vector graphics library
> 
> but the problem remains.

It would be helpful if you could narrow down what packages you have
upgraded recently that could cause this change. (Try to check
/var/log/dpkg.log). Possibly, can you try downgrading some of these and
see what fixes it ? I'd suggest you first downgrade iceweasel and
xulrunner-1.9.1 to what they were before. If that doesn't change
anything, the problem is elsewhere. Most likely cairo and/or an X video
driver. If this is a cairo issue, most likely trying upstream firefox
would not have the same problem. Could you also check that?

Thanks

Mike