Re: Unusable windows

[Bruce Sass]

On December 25, 2011 05:54:59 PM Gilles Sadowski wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I apologize in advance for posting here, but I'm at a loss even figuring
> out where to report the situation I'm facing after my latest attempts to
> upgrade my system.  Maybe people here will have an idea of which package
> is the likely culprit of the following symptoms.

You need to provide more information:

Which Debian versions or archives are you upgrading from and to?

What is your upgrade history?
(i.e., daily from Unstable or Testing, Unstable every 6 months, Stable to 
Testing or Unstable, etc.)

Have you installed any backports or non-Debian packages?

Which desktop environment are you using?

Exactly which apps are affected and which are not?
(there may be a pattern)

...
> Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction by naming a
> package against which to file a bug report, or providing a hint a how to
> solve the problem.

Even with the above information it may not be possible to determine what the 
problem is--be prepared to post config files, logs, output of commands, etc.

I think you should post to the debian-user mailing list so you reach a wider 
audience... once the problem has been narrowed down to a specific 
subsystem/class (e.g., X, GTK apps) or determined to be architecture specific 
(e.g., x86_64 boxes) be prepared to post what you've discovered to the 
appropriate mailing list(s).

HTH, and good luck.


- Bruce


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Unusable windows

[Gilles Sadowski]

Hello.

I apologize in advance for posting here, but I'm at a loss even figuring out
where to report the situation I'm facing after my latest attempts to upgrade
my system.  Maybe people here will have an idea of which package is the
likely culprit of the following symptoms.

Launching kdm, and logging in (user name + password), everything seems to be
fine at first.
Logging out. The rectangular areas (where to write the user name and
password) have become black. [When "selecting" with the mouse, one can "see"
the login name.]
The input works; so, one can still log in.
Now, some application windows have a black background (e.g. iceape) and have
become unusable (e.g. the "buttons" in the navigator are barely visible) and
some seem to be transparent. For example, in a terminal window, the
background (root) image appears to be its background.
When logging out, and clicking on the "choice of session" button of the
login manager, there is a black stripe at the bottom of that rectangle.

I've tried to search on the web for similar situations but I could not find
anything relevant yet.

Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction by naming a
package against which to file a bug report, or providing a hint a how to
solve the problem.


Thanks,
Gilles


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