GTK+ Applications Randomly Lose Text on Wake from Suspend

[Jason Stephenson]

On Ubuntu 16.04 with mir, some applications (apparently those using GTk+) randomly lose text on wake from suspend. (I am attaching screen shots.)

This is random and it takes a while to manifest itself. I generally leave my laptop on and logged in for days. Waking it and putting it to sleep many times. After a few days, it will sometimes lose all text in applications using GTK+. Interestingly, Firefox is unaffected, though Thunderbird is.

The loss of text includes the menus in the menubar or inside the application. The system menus also lose text.

Doing 3 things will correct the situation:

1) Restarting the laptop.
2) Logging out and logging back in.
3) Switching to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and killing the gnome-session. (This requires logging back in when the Unity session comes back.)

So, basically, gnome-session appears to be involved/the culprit.

Processor is Intel® Core™ i5-4200M CPU @ 2.50GHz × 4
Graphics is Intel Haswell

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

It also affects the screen shot application.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Thunderbird also loses its text.

I could have taken more screen shots, but don't think that they would be helpful.

If more information is required, please let me know. I'm not new to Launchpad, but I'm a bit green at submitting bugs for Ubuntu.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Jason,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird after suspend. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu and Thunderbird have been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know and run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

It has not happened to me since a few month after making the bug report.

In the meantime I have upgraded that laptop. I have also gotten a new laptop.

I'm now using 18.04 and I have not had this problem since upgrading to 17.04. I don't have any laptops or desktops with 16.04 to check, so I'd say we can close this one.

Not sure what what status to give it. Won't Fix?

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, Jason. I will close the report now.
Have a great day!
:)
G

Closed per reporter’s feedback.