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

[Julien Tailleur]

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Mike Hommey wrote:

> 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).

Unfortunately it was my first full-upgrade for ages, so that many packages 
were upgraded (see http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~jtailleu/dpkg.log and 
dpkg.log.1).

> 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.

I'm happy to try but I never did that before :-) Do you know where I can 
get the old deb files ? I think I need xulrunner 1.9.1.9-6 and iceweasel 
3.5.9-2 but I could not find the deb file... Oh, and do I just remove the 
current package and then dpkg -i the old one or is there a better way ?

> 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?

I tried to install upstream firefox. To do so, I picked the ubuntu deb 
file of firefox 3.5.9 here:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firefox-3.5/

and, surprizingly, the installation was successful :-)

julien at rotule:~$ dpkg -l | grep firefox-3.5
ii  firefox-3.5                          3.5.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 
safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
ii  firefox-3.5-branding                 3.5.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 
Package that ships the firefox branding

However I still have the same pb:

http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~jtailleu/UpstreamFirefox.png

(if you think all these files should be somewhere in the bugreport, please 
don't hesitate to tell me how I can upload them).

Best wishes,

Julien

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