Ubuntu
xserver-xgl package

odd screen flashing and black screen upon session startup

Bug #136859 reported by Martin-Éric Racine
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xserver-xgl (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Since the GTK+2 update that was pushed into Gutsy a couple of days ago, I get distorted pointer bitmaps, weird screen flashing and, in the end, nearly totally black screen - except from a handful of notification area icons. This happens equally under GNOME and under IceWM.

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

Another symptom is that applications started remotely report:

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

Purging package xserver-xgl solved it here. Could the new GTK and that server be incompatible or would the server require a recompile before Gutsy is released?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

looks like an xorg bug

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Reassigning to xserver-xgl

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

xserver-xgl has been deprecated upstream, and removed from Intrepid. Closing the bug as won't fix.

Changed in xserver-xgl:
status: New → Won't Fix
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