FS#32347 - [cairo/gnome-shell] cairo 1.12.6-2 produces a black background in gnome-shell Activities overview
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Opened by Stephane (endived) - Thursday, 01 November 2012, 07:01 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 02 November 2012, 09:15 GMT
Opened by Stephane (endived) - Thursday, 01 November 2012, 07:01 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 02 November 2012, 09:15 GMT
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Description:
cairo 1.12.6-2 produces a black background in the Activities overview in gnome-shell 3.6.1 Rolling back to cairo 1.12.2-3 fixes the problem. Package for cairo 1.12.4-x was not available to test. Additional info: * package version(s) cairo 1.12.6-2 * config and/or log files etc. Steps to reproduce: Install the package from the /extra repository with pacman. Re-launching gnome-shell with Alt-F2-r has no initial impact. Next reboot there will be a back background instead of the Gnome wallpaper when you enter Activities view. |
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Any log in particular I should be heading for?
Performed a clean install yesterday. Have (since last update) gnome-shell 3.6.1, with default Adwaita theme and custom background. Reverting to the default Adwaita background has no effect (tried Alt-F2-r and reboot).
GPU is AMD Radeon HD 6450.
I'm using the proprietary AMD (Catalyst) fglrx driver, packages catalyst-dkms catalyst-utils installed from the official repo.
You could try to find the upstream commit that causes your problem by bisecting cairo.
(Apart from the fact the card runs about 20 degrees Celsius hotter with the open source driver but that's another issue altogether ;-) )
I guess it's very safe to say it has to do with the proprietary driver indeed.
Will have a closer look at the latest cairo commits.
I've opened a bug report with cairo to follow this up.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56657