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

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Thu Sep 2 13:04:18 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 02:55:06PM +0200, Julien Tailleur wrote:
> 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 ?

Just dpkg -i them directly. No need to remove the old ones. You can find
them on http://snapshot.debian.org/

> >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).

I'm not sure Ubuntu uses the bundled cairo library, it would be safer to
test with a pure upstream Firefox.

Mike





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