Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

[Carsten Schoenert]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 09:53:55AM +0100, Don Alex wrote:
> Can confirm. Initial rending of windows appear blank but when rolling mouse
> over it artifacts begin to be drawn. Makes Thunderbird unsable. However when
> running the official Mozilla build
> 
> http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/52.2.1/linux-x86_64/en-GB/thunderbird-52.2.1.tar.bz2
> 
> on the same system, no such errors occur. Suggest you compare the two builds
> and discover what has changed.

That's quite easy to compare, Mozilla is still using GCC-4.x in their
toolchain.  Such issues are not happen for the first time while Debian
is changing the GCC suite.

Regards
Carsten

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

[Don Alex]

Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:52.2.1-4+b1
Followup-For: Bug #871629

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii  debianutils   4.8.1.1
ii  fontconfig2.12.3-0.2
ii  libatk1.0-0   2.24.0-1
ii  libc6 2.24-12
ii  libcairo-gobject2 1.14.10-1
ii  libcairo2 1.14.10-1
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.11.16+really1.10.22-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.108-2
ii  libevent-2.1-62.1.8-stable-4
ii  libffi6   3.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig12.12.3-0.2
ii  libfreetype6  2.8-0.2
ii  libgcc1   1:7.1.0-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-02.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.53.4-3
ii  libgtk-3-03.22.17-1
ii  libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-01.40.6-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0   1.40.6-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.40.6-1
ii  libpixman-1-0 0.34.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4+b2
ii  libstdc++67.1.0-10
ii  libvpx4   1.6.1-3
ii  libx11-6  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libx11-xcb1   2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcb-shm0   1.12-1
ii  libxcb1   1.12-1
ii  libxcomposite11:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1   1:1.1.4-2+b3
ii  libxext6  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes31:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1   1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt61:1.1.5-1
ii  psmisc23.1-1
ii  x11-utils 7.7+3+b1
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii  hunspell-en-gb [hunspell-dictionary]  1:5.2.5-1
ii  hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary]  20070829-7
ii  lightning 1:52.2.1-4+b1

Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
pn  apparmor  
ii  fonts-lyx 2.2.3-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.15.1-2


Can confirm. Initial rending of windows appear blank but when rolling mouse
over it artifacts begin to be drawn. Makes Thunderbird unsable. However when
running the official Mozilla build

http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/52.2.1/linux-x86_64/en-
GB/thunderbird-52.2.1.tar.bz2

on the same system, no such errors occur. Suggest you compare the two builds
and discover what has changed.

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 04:21:10PM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> Package: thunderbird
> Version: 1:52.2.1-4+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the thunderbird UI is unusable with many widgets not drawn. See
> attached screenshot. Mouse hover causes some to be drawn.
> 
> Using XFCE with Clearlooks Phenix theme. Changing theme causes all
> widgets to be redrawn, but mouse activity causes them to disappear
> again.
> 
> Unusable. Downgrading.

as Adrian has pointed out the visible issue is some kind related to the
new default GCC-7 version in unstable that has introduced this
regression.
As far I could test I can reproduce this issue no mather if I use
Gnome Classic, 3, KDE5 with classical X-system or Wayland so it's
probably not related to the DE. Like Firefox we switches back to GCC-6
for now.

I'll upload a so prepared version soon.

@dkg
Thanks for the nice explanation how snapshot.d.o can be use with apt! We
will need to put this to the wiki somehow.

Regards
Carsten

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

[Benoît Rouits]

Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:52.2.1-4+b1
Followup-For: Bug #871629

Dear Maintainer,

I get the exact same issue in stock Debian's Gnome Desktop, Buster.

Thank you for your consideration,
 Benoît



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii  debianutils   4.8.1.1
ii  fontconfig2.12.3-0.2
ii  libatk1.0-0   2.24.0-1
ii  libc6 2.24-12
ii  libcairo-gobject2 1.14.10-1
ii  libcairo2 1.14.10-1
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.11.16+really1.10.22-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.108-2
ii  libevent-2.1-62.1.8-stable-4
ii  libffi6   3.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig12.12.3-0.2
ii  libfreetype6  2.8-0.2
ii  libgcc1   1:7.1.0-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-02.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.53.4-3
ii  libgtk-3-03.22.17-1
ii  libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-01.40.6-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0   1.40.6-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.40.6-1
ii  libpixman-1-0 0.34.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4+b2
ii  libstdc++67.1.0-10
ii  libvpx4   1.6.1-3
ii  libx11-6  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libx11-xcb1   2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcb-shm0   1.12-1
ii  libxcb1   1.12-1
ii  libxcomposite11:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1   1:1.1.4-2+b3
ii  libxext6  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes31:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1   1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt61:1.1.5-1
ii  psmisc23.1-1
ii  x11-utils 7.7+3+b1
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii  hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 20070829-7
ii  hunspell-fr-classical [hunspell-dictionary]  1:6.1-1
ii  lightning1:52.2.1-4+b1

Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
pn  apparmor  
ii  fonts-lyx 2.2.3-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.15.1-2

-- no debconf information

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

[jim_p]

Package: thunderbird
Followup-For: Bug #871629

Count me in as well, using debian testing. I had to downgrade to 52.2.1-4 to
get it back to work.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii  debianutils   4.8.1.1
ii  fontconfig2.12.3-0.2
ii  libatk1.0-0   2.24.0-1
ii  libc6 2.24-12
ii  libcairo-gobject2 1.14.10-1
ii  libcairo2 1.14.10-1
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.11.16+really1.10.22-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.108-2
ii  libevent-2.0-52.0.21-stable-3
ii  libffi6   3.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig12.12.3-0.2
ii  libfreetype6  2.8-0.2
ii  libgcc1   1:7.1.0-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-02.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.53.4-3
ii  libgtk-3-03.22.17-1
ii  libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-01.40.6-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0   1.40.6-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.40.6-1
ii  libpixman-1-0 0.34.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4+b2
ii  libstdc++67.1.0-10
ii  libvpx4   1.6.1-3
ii  libx11-6  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libx11-xcb1   2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcb-shm0   1.12-1
ii  libxcb1   1.12-1
ii  libxcomposite11:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1   1:1.1.4-2+b3
ii  libxext6  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes31:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1   1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt61:1.1.5-1
ii  psmisc23.1-1
ii  x11-utils 7.7+3+b1
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
pn  lightning 
pn  myspell-en-us | hunspell-dictionary | myspell-dictionary  

Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
pn  apparmor  
pn  fonts-lyx 
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.15.1-2

-- no debconf information

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

Downgrading to thunderbird and lightning 52.2.1-4 restores usability. 
Reinstallation of libevent-2.0-5 (autoremoved) is also required.


Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 04:21:10PM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> Package: thunderbird
> Version: 1:52.2.1-4+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the thunderbird UI is unusable with many widgets not drawn. See attached 
> screenshot. Mouse hover causes some to be drawn.
>...

This is likely caused by the binNMU for the libevent transition,
that resulted in thunderbird being recompiled with gcc 7.

Similar problems were observed in firefox{,-esr}, workarounded there by 
using gcc-6/g++-6 in unstable for now.

> Kind regards,
> Ben.

cu
Adrian

-- 

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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
   "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
   Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:52.2.1-4+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

the thunderbird UI is unusable with many widgets not drawn. See attached 
screenshot. Mouse hover causes some to be drawn.

Using XFCE with Clearlooks Phenix theme. Changing theme causes all widgets to 
be redrawn, but mouse activity causes them to disappear again.

Unusable. Downgrading.

Kind regards,
Ben.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii  debianutils   4.8.2
ii  fontconfig2.12.3-0.2
ii  libatk1.0-0   2.24.0-1
ii  libc6 2.24-14
ii  libcairo-gobject2 1.14.10-1
ii  libcairo2 1.14.10-1
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.11.16+really1.10.22-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.108-2
ii  libevent-2.1-62.1.8-stable-4
ii  libffi6   3.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig12.12.3-0.2
ii  libfreetype6  2.8-0.2
ii  libgcc1   1:7.1.0-13
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-02.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.53.4-3
ii  libgtk-3-03.22.17-1
ii  libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-01.40.6-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0   1.40.6-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.40.6-1
ii  libpixman-1-0 0.34.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4+b2
ii  libstdc++67.1.0-13
ii  libvpx4   1.6.1-3
ii  libx11-6  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libx11-xcb1   2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcb-shm0   1.12-1
ii  libxcb1   1.12-1
ii  libxcomposite11:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1   1:1.1.4-2+b3
ii  libxext6  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes31:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1   1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt61:1.1.5-1
ii  psmisc23.1-1
ii  x11-utils 7.7+3+b1
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii  hunspell-en-gb [hunspell-dictionary]  1:5.2.5-1
ii  lightning 1:52.2.1-4+b1

Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
pn  apparmor  
ii  fonts-lyx 2.2.3-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.15.1-2

-- no debconf information