FS#51248 - [gtk3][libreoffice-fresh][libreoffice-still] garbled font rendering

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matt Price (matt.price) - Wednesday, 05 October 2016, 19:23 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 07 December 2016, 21:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
After a recent upgrade which included an upgrade to gnome-testing (3.22), fonts in libreoffice now spontaneously switch from a normal appearance to garbled nonsense (see image). THe garbling usually occurs after performing some kind of style- or format-related task. Once text is corrupted, it appears corrupted on-screen but exports to pdf without issue.

If anyone has advice on how to debug Libreoffice or gtk, thanks very much for sharing it.

Additional info:
* GTK3 3.22.1-0
* libreoffice-fresh 5.2.2-1 or libreoffice-still 5.1.5-3

Steps to reproduce:
Start Libreoffice
Open file
attempt to modify a style

Behaviour is not seen in any other application (yet).
   Screenshot from 2016-10-05 14... (486.3 KiB)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Wednesday, 07 December 2016, 21:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Matt Price (matt.price) - Friday, 07 October 2016, 12:30 GMT
Disabling Testing repo and running

pacman -Syyuu

to downgrade to gnome and gtk 3.20 fixed the problem for me. I've attached an etckeeper log which lists the full changeset for that operation (sorry if there's a better way to present this info -- I don't know it).

I'd be happy to experiment a bit with the testing repos if that would help track down the bug; please just tell me what to do and I'll follow directions.
   etclog.log (11.2 KiB)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 21:22 GMT
I could reproduce this today (with libreoffice-still), but according to a Debian bugreport this should be fixed in version 5.2.2. The -still version is affected though.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 06 November 2016, 08:51 GMT
This should be fixed with recent upstream releases for -still and -fresh packages. Please confirm.

Loading...