compiz and other display misbehavior on HD4000 after xatracker/mesa components upgraded to 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1

[Jim Hill]

After a recent upgrade the unity launcher autohide lost transparency and other programs began apparently hanging. I saw these upgrade lines in dpkg.log:

2013-02-27 15:14:16 upgrade libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:18 upgrade libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:22 upgrade libgl1-mesa-dev:amd64 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:23 upgrade mesa-common-dev:amd64 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:24 upgrade libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:25 upgrade libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:26 upgrade libglapi-mesa:amd64 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:26 upgrade libglapi-mesa:i386 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:31 upgrade libxatracker1:amd64 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1
2013-02-27 15:14:32 upgrade libosmesa6:i386 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 9.0-0ubuntu1

and backed those out with

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev:amd64=9.0-0ubuntu1 mesa-common-dev:amd64=9.0-0ubuntu1 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64=9.0-0ubuntu1 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386=9.0-0ubuntu1 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386=9.0-0ubuntu1 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64=9.0-0ubuntu1 libglapi-mesa:amd64=9.0-0ubuntu1 libglapi-mesa:i386=9.0-0ubuntu1 libxatracker1:amd64=9.0-0ubuntu1 libosmesa6:i386=9.0-0ubuntu1

now everything works again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.39-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CurrentDmesg: [ 24.724057] init: Failed to spawn setvtrgb main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory
Date: Wed Feb 27 16:09:51 2013
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0162] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device [1565:110d]
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks [Radeon HD 6670] [1002:6758] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device [1787:2012]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-16 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MachineType: BIOSTAR Group H61MHB
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-25-generic root=UUID=790b115f-b569-4b96-97d1-0d5aab9f12fc ro
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/20/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 4.6.4
dmi.board.asset.tag: None
dmi.board.name: H61MHB
dmi.board.vendor: BIOSTAR Group
dmi.board.version: 6.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: None
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: BIOSTAR Group
dmi.chassis.version: 6.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4.6.4:bd12/20/2011:svnBIOSTARGroup:pnH61MHB:pvr6.0:rvnBIOSTARGroup:rnH61MHB:rvr6.0:cvnBIOSTARGroup:ct3:cvr6.0:
dmi.product.name: H61MHB
dmi.product.version: 6.0
dmi.sys.vendor: BIOSTAR Group
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michael Roitzsch (mroi)]

I too had graphics issues after this upgrade. I am using Ubuntu 12.10 in a VMware Fusion virtual machine on a Mac. After upgrading mesa and xatracker to 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1 I no longer get video playback in Totem. All videos show a black video window. Audio works and the time indicator progresses as expected, but no picture is shown. I could not find a relevant warning or error in the xsession log. After reverting mesa and xatracker back to 9.0, everything works again.

[Michael Roitzsch (mroi)]

Downgrading these three packages to 9.0 is enough for me to get a working system:
libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libxatracker1

I can upgrade the other packages to 9.0.2 without any apparent problems.

[Jim Hill (gjthill)]

I'm using the HD4000 graphics on my Ivy Bridge 3570, which might not be apparent from the hardware report.

[Jim Hill (gjthill)]

Switching to a Radeon 6670 GPU also eliminates the misbehavior.

[Michael Roitzsch (mroi)]

My problems were fixed in Ubuntu 13.04. This may not affect the original poster though.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Jim Hill, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases, Ubuntu 12.10 reached EOL on May 16, 2014.

Is this reproducible in a supported release?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mesa (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]