Package: gnome
Version: 1:3.22+3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
I'm experiencing severe graphical glitches on Gnome and Gdm3 that render
the environment unusable. Borders of windows remain on screen, blinking, after
moving, and typing on terminals is a mess, full of glitches that make it
impossible to see the characters. Menus show highliting and blinking of
several items when hovering over them. Chromium works fine though.
Videos show this better than pictures, here are a couple:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/lgTsHKLZhBa3SaF83https://photos.app.goo.gl/m2Dj4XYP79q0fSTJ2
I'm using Fluxbox for now which works perfectly, showing no glitches,
whatsoever.
I updated my system from Jessie to Stretch and I believe this started after
an upgrade, but not the dist-upgrade though. I tried reverting all packages
but that did not help.
System running on current Stretch versions of all packages.
Xorg with no custom configurations.
Hardware: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] [1002:6758]
Driver: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:7.8.0-1+b1
I'm not sure if this is a Gnome, Xorg, Radeon bug...
Any help is appreciated.
PS.: I just would like to let you know that I'm an experienced Linux user, and
I have been using it for 20 years on several computers, servers, laptop etc.
I can provide you with any information you need and perform any tests you
suggest. I googled for similar problems but I haven't found any.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt_BR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnome depends on:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.32-2
ii cheese 3.22.1-1+b1
ii cups-pk-helper 0.2.6-1+b1
ii desktop-base 9.0.2
ii evolution 3.22.6-1
ii evolution-plugins 3.22.6-1
ii file-roller 3.22.3-1
ii gedit-plugins 3.22.0-1
ii gimp 2.8.18-1
ii gnome-calendar 3.22.4-2
ii gnome-clocks 3.22.1-1
ii gnome-color-manager 3.22.2-1
ii gnome-core 1:3.22+3
ii gnome-dictionary 3.20.0-3+b1
ii gnome-documents 3.22.1-1
ii gnome-getting-started-docs 3.22.0-1
ii gnome-maps 3.22.2-1
ii gnome-music 3.22.2-1
ii gnome-orca 3.22.2-3
ii gnome-photos 3.22.5-1
ii gnome-screenshot 3.22.0-1+b1
ii gnome-sound-recorder 3.21.92-2
ii gnome-tweak-tool 3.22.0-1
ii gnome-weather 3.20.2-1
ii gstreamer1.0-libav 1.10.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly 1.10.4-1
ii inkscape 0.92.1-1
ii libgsf-bin 1.14.41-1
ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2499-1
ii libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager 0.4.14-2
ii libreoffice-calc 1:5.2.7-1
ii libreoffice-evolution 1:5.2.7-1
ii libreoffice-gnome 1:5.2.7-1
ii libreoffice-impress 1:5.2.7-1
ii libreoffice-writer 1:5.2.7-1
ii nautilus-sendto 3.8.4-2+b1
ii network-manager-gnome 1.4.4-1
ii rhythmbox 3.4.1-2+b1
ii rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder 3.4.1-2+b1
ii rhythmbox-plugins 3.4.1-2+b1
ii rygel-playbin 0.32.1-3
ii rygel-tracker 0.32.1-3
ii seahorse 3.20.0-3.1
ii simple-scan 3.23.2-1
ii totem-plugins 3.22.1-1
ii vinagre 3.22.0-1+b1
ii xdg-user-dirs-gtk 0.10-1+b1
Versions of packages gnome recommends:
ii brasero 3.12.1-4
ii gnome-games 1:3.22+3
ii polari 3.22.2-1
ii transmission-gtk 2.92-2
Versions of packages gnome suggests:
ii alacarte 3.11.91-2
ii empathy 3.12.12-4
pn firefox-esr-l10n-all | firefox-l10n-all <none>
ii goobox 3.4.2-3
pn xul-ext-gnome-keyring <none>
pn xul-ext-ublock-origin <none>
Versions of packages gnome-core depends on:
ii adwaita-icon-theme 3.22.0-1+deb9u1
ii at-spi2-core 2.22.0-6
ii baobab 3.22.1-1
ii caribou 0.4.21-1+b1
ii chrome-gnome-shell 8-4
ii chromium 60.0.3112.78-1~deb9u1
ii dconf-cli 0.26.0-2+b1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.26.0-2+b1
ii eog 3.20.5-1+b1
ii evince 3.22.1-3+deb9u1
ii evolution-data-server 3.22.7-1
ii firefox-esr 52.3.0esr-1~deb9u1
ii fonts-cantarell 0.0.25-2
ii gdm3 3.22.3-3
ii gedit 3.22.0-2
ii gkbd-capplet 3.22.0.1-1+b1
ii glib-networking 2.50.0-1+b1
ii gnome-backgrounds 3.22.1-1
ii gnome-bluetooth 3.20.1-1
ii gnome-calculator 3.22.3-1
ii gnome-characters 3.22.0-1
ii gnome-contacts 3.22.1-1+b2
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.22.2-3
ii gnome-disk-utility 3.22.1-1
ii gnome-font-viewer 3.22.0-1+b1
ii gnome-keyring 3.20.0-3
ii gnome-logs 3.22.1-2
ii gnome-menus 3.13.3-9
ii gnome-online-accounts 3.22.5-1
ii gnome-online-miners 3.22.0-1
ii gnome-session 3.22.3-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.22.2-2+deb9u2
ii gnome-shell 3.22.3-3
ii gnome-shell-extensions 3.22.2-1
ii gnome-software 3.22.5-1
ii gnome-sushi 3.21.91-2
ii gnome-system-monitor 3.22.2-1
ii gnome-terminal 3.22.2-1
ii gnome-themes-standard 3.22.2-2
ii gnome-user-guide 3.22.0-1
ii gnome-user-share 3.18.3-1+b1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.10.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.10.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio 1.10.4-1
ii gvfs-backends 1.30.4-1
ii gvfs-bin 1.30.4-1
ii gvfs-fuse 1.30.4-1
ii libatk-adaptor 2.22.0-2
ii libcanberra-pulse 0.30-3
ii libcaribou-gtk-module 0.4.21-1+b1
ii libcaribou-gtk3-module 0.4.21-1+b1
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.20.0-3
ii libproxy1-plugin-gsettings 0.4.14-2
ii nautilus 3.22.3-1
ii pulseaudio 10.0-1+deb9u1
ii sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-1
ii system-config-printer-common 1.5.7-3
ii system-config-printer-udev 1.5.7-3+b1
ii totem 3.22.1-1
ii tracker-gui 1.10.5-1
ii vino 3.22.0-1
ii yelp 3.22.0-1
ii zenity 3.22.0-1+b1
Versions of packages gnome-core recommends:
ii anacron 2.3-24
ii libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager 0.4.14-2
ii network-manager-gnome 1.4.4-1
gnome-core suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Subject: Re: Bug#875248: gnome 3.22: severe graphical glitches on Radeon HD
6670/7670 "Turks"
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 09:44:49 +0100
Control: retitle -1 gnome 3.22: severe graphical glitches on Radeon HD 6670/7670 "Turks"
Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Control: reassign -1 gnome-shell 3.22.3-3
On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 at 18:49:34 -0300, Ramiro Lopes wrote:
> I'm experiencing severe graphical glitches on Gnome and Gdm3 that render
> the environment unusable. Borders of windows remain on screen, blinking, after
> moving, and typing on terminals is a mess, full of glitches that make it
> impossible to see the characters. Menus show highliting and blinking of
> several items when hovering over them. Chromium works fine though.
Are you still using the hardware for which you reported this bug?
I'm downgrading this to "important" severity, because while it makes
GNOME unusable *on your hardware*, it does not make GNOME unusable in
general. For now I'm reassigning to gnome-shell, but depending on other
information you provide, it might get reassigned again.
I suspect this is probably triggered by GNOME Shell being a compositor
that makes non-trivial use of GPU hardware, whereas Fluxbox treats your
GPU as though it was a simple 1990s graphics card. That makes GNOME
Shell much more vulnerable to kernel or driver bugs.
Your Radeon HD 6670/7670 seems to be a 2010 design that is meant to be
supported by the "radeon" driver family (not the "amdgpu" driver used
for newer AMD graphics hardware).
Do you get any interesting-looking messages in the system log,
particularly after starting gdm or GNOME? Please send the syslog
entries for a sample boot and login, censoring anything private with
XXX or similar.
Please could you also gather the package information from
"reportbug --template gnome-shell" and
"reportbug --template libgl1-mesa-dri", preferably running under X11,
and send that to this bug? That would tell us more about your hardware
and drivers. It would be particularly useful if you are able to run those
commands in a GNOME Shell session that exhibits this bug, because that
would give us the Xorg.*.log for that session.
> I'm using Fluxbox for now which works perfectly, showing no glitches,
> whatsoever.
Do other compositing environments or programs that make use of your
graphics hardware have the same problem? Here are some things to try:
* gnome-maps under Fluxbox (uses Clutter)
* openarena or a similar 3D game (uses OpenGL)
* gnome-session-flashback with compositing disabled
(gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager false)
* gnome-session-flashback with compositing enabled
(gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager true)
* GNOME in Wayland or X11 mode (do they behave the same or is one of
them better?)
* MATE desktop environment (a fork of GNOME)
Test results for those would help to pin down where the problem is.
> I tried reverting all packages but that did not help.
Which packages did you try reverting?
Would you be able to test this on Debian testing/unstable (buster/sid)
on the same hardware? It's possible that this was fixed somewhere between
stretch and buster.
Thanks,
smcv
Changed Bug title to 'gnome 3.22: severe graphical glitches on Radeon HD 6670/7670 "Turks"' from 'gnome: severe graphical glitches'.
Request was from Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
to [email protected].
(Tue, 07 Aug 2018 08:48:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Acknowledgement sent
to intrigeri <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>.
(Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:21:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: Bug#875248: gnome 3.22: severe graphical glitches on Radeon HD 6670/7670 "Turks"
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:19:56 +0200
Hi,
thank you for reporting this bug to Debian. Here's one last ping
before we close this bug due to lack of actionable information.
See below the questions Simon asked a year ago:
Simon McVittie (7 Aug 2018):
> On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 at 18:49:34 -0300, Ramiro Lopes wrote:
>> I'm experiencing severe graphical glitches on Gnome and Gdm3 that render
>> the environment unusable. Borders of windows remain on screen, blinking, after
>> moving, and typing on terminals is a mess, full of glitches that make it
>> impossible to see the characters. Menus show highliting and blinking of
>> several items when hovering over them. Chromium works fine though.
> Are you still using the hardware for which you reported this bug?
> I'm downgrading this to "important" severity, because while it makes
> GNOME unusable *on your hardware*, it does not make GNOME unusable in
> general. For now I'm reassigning to gnome-shell, but depending on other
> information you provide, it might get reassigned again.
> I suspect this is probably triggered by GNOME Shell being a compositor
> that makes non-trivial use of GPU hardware, whereas Fluxbox treats your
> GPU as though it was a simple 1990s graphics card. That makes GNOME
> Shell much more vulnerable to kernel or driver bugs.
> Your Radeon HD 6670/7670 seems to be a 2010 design that is meant to be
> supported by the "radeon" driver family (not the "amdgpu" driver used
> for newer AMD graphics hardware).
> Do you get any interesting-looking messages in the system log,
> particularly after starting gdm or GNOME? Please send the syslog
> entries for a sample boot and login, censoring anything private with
> XXX or similar.
> Please could you also gather the package information from
> "reportbug --template gnome-shell" and
> "reportbug --template libgl1-mesa-dri", preferably running under X11,
> and send that to this bug? That would tell us more about your hardware
> and drivers. It would be particularly useful if you are able to run those
> commands in a GNOME Shell session that exhibits this bug, because that
> would give us the Xorg.*.log for that session.
>> I'm using Fluxbox for now which works perfectly, showing no glitches,
>> whatsoever.
> Do other compositing environments or programs that make use of your
> graphics hardware have the same problem? Here are some things to try:
> * gnome-maps under Fluxbox (uses Clutter)
> * openarena or a similar 3D game (uses OpenGL)
> * gnome-session-flashback with compositing disabled
> (gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager false)
> * gnome-session-flashback with compositing enabled
> (gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager true)
> * GNOME in Wayland or X11 mode (do they behave the same or is one of
> them better?)
> * MATE desktop environment (a fork of GNOME)
> Test results for those would help to pin down where the problem is.
>> I tried reverting all packages but that did not help.
> Which packages did you try reverting?
> Would you be able to test this on Debian testing/unstable (buster/sid)
> on the same hardware? It's possible that this was fixed somewhere between
> stretch and buster.
Update: it would be nice if you could try to reproduce this bug on
Debian 10 (Buster) or current Debian testing/unstable :)
Cheers,
--
intrigeri
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 12 (or
with Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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