I tried "Ubuntu on Wayland". Crash. Logged in. Screen loaded improperly and keyboard and mouse froze; handlers blocked and who knows what else. The screen didn't have the red artifact though; it had a cluster of diagonal black and white scan lines covering about the middle third of the screen, an incomplete population of the left hand tool bar icons I use and none of the desktop icons. The top tool bar seemed complete, but was non-functional.
Tried "Unity" while I was at it, and that was a complete flop post-log-in. Blank screen, except for an oversized audio slider icon at the top right and the cursor arrow, and the cursor was frozen; once again, no handlers. On 1/22/20 8:40 AM, Paul Collinsworth wrote: > I encountered an issue after advising you that 18.04.3 works. Perhaps > it sheds some light on the problem. > > It occurred to me that perhaps there is a graphics issue and that part > of what I was seeing is contamination of the background image I was > using. So I tried to open "Settings" in order to revert to the default > image. Didn't work; that is, "Settings" doesn't work. No response. I > can click on "Settings" on either toolbar or try to access it through > "Show Applications" and no response. > > What's more, after getting no response there, other stuff is locked > out and doesn't respond. I have to reboot to get functionality back. > In getting to reboot, the shutdown process does report that anything > I've tried to open or start, after trying to reach "Settings", isn't > responding, and then it hangs. If I click on "Power down" again at > that point, it doesn't, it just puts up an image and stalls (the image > it displays is the background image I've been using, without the > toolbars and the contaminant artifact!). At that point, I've just hit > the power switch. > > I've not tried "Ubuntu on Wayland" or the test kernel package. I'll > see what happens there. I can boot into the prior Linux generic via > grub; haven't tried to pull up any apps there, but the image issue was > still there. > > > > On 1/22/20 12:43 AM, Daniel van Vugt wrote: >> OK, thanks. Assuming the bug isn't just hiding and wouldn't reappear >> later in 18.04.3 if used long enough, then this implies a fix exists >> somewhere in the HWE packages (which are the difference between 18.04 >> fully updated and 18.04.3 fully updated). >> >> The only two sets of HWE packages I can think of that affect graphics >> are Xorg and the kernel. >> >> Firstly Xorg: Does the bug occur if you log into "Ubuntu on Wayland" >> instead? >> >> Secondly the kernel: Does the bug occur if you install the latest test >> kernel packages from here?https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- >> ppa/mainline/v5.5-rc7/ Remember to run 'uname -a' to check which kernel >> is active. >> > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1860483 Title: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in mesa package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: My desktop has both it's usual items in place; toolbar on left and desktop icons distributed around the screen. Then there's what appears to be a bunch of scan line, raster line artifacts, in red, laid over my normal background, which is a star field photo on what is ordinarily a black field. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-74.84-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-74-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity_support_test.0: ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9 Architecture: amd64 CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Jan 21 13:04:20 2020 DistUpgraded: 2018-10-03 14:38:19,863 DEBUG icon theme changed, re-reading DistroCodename: bionic DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] [10de:01d1] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] [1028:0405] InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-19 (1249 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 531 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-74-generic root=UUID=08d8f7c1-e351-4abe-8ebe-443d6a751497 ro plymouth:debug=1 quiet splash vt.handoff=1 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-10-03 (474 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 11/09/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1.0.7 dmi.board.name: 0RY206 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: ��� dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.0.7:bd11/09/2007:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron531:pvr00:rvnDellInc.:rn0RY206:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: Inspiron 531 dmi.product.version: 00 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.99-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.2.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 19.2.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2 xserver.bootTime: Wed Oct 3 10:41:28 2018 xserver.configfile: default xserver.devices: input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7 input Dell Dell USB Keyboard KEYBOARD, id 8 input Logitech USB Trackball MOUSE, id 9 xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.8 xserver.video_driver: nouveau To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1860483/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp