Rebuild against latest webkit2gtk

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Please see this email thread:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2023-September/019607.html

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@Jack: I don't see a yelp issue in a 23.10 Xorg session with NVIDIA. But I uploaded yelp to this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/yelp

Can you please install yelp from there and confirm that it makes a difference for you compared with yelp 42.2-1 in the archive?

[Jack Howarth (jwhowarth)]

I still see the bug with your build. One correction though. Apparently my proposed fix of changing...

* debian/control.in: Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.2

is insufficient. It seems that my previous workaround of changing /usr/share/applications/yelp.desktop to contain...

Exec=env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 yelp %u

rather than

Exec=yelp %u

survives closing yelp and reinstalling the packages. After a reboot, with that change no longer in the desktop file for yelp, the bug returns.

[Jack Howarth (jwhowarth)]

FYI, I am running mantic on a workstation with secure boot enabled for the second drive containing Windows 11 in case that might have some impact on the bug. The linux debs that are installed are...

ii linux-base 4.5ubuntu9 all Linux image base package
ii linux-firmware 20230919.git3672ccab-0ubuntu2 amd64 Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
ii linux-generic-hwe-22.04 6.5.0.6.8 amd64 Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers
ii linux-headers-6.5.0-5 6.5.0-5.5 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 6.5.0
ii linux-headers-6.5.0-5-generic 6.5.0-5.5 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 6.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-6.5.0-6 6.5.0-6.6 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 6.5.0
ii linux-headers-6.5.0-6-generic 6.5.0-6.6 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 6.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-generic-hwe-22.04 6.5.0.6.8 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers
ii linux-image-6.5.0-5-generic 6.5.0-5.5 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-6.5.0-6-generic 6.5.0-6.6 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04 6.5.0.6.8 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image
ii linux-libc-dev:amd64 6.5.0-6.6 amd64 Linux Kernel Headers for development
ii linux-modules-6.5.0-5-generic 6.5.0-5.5 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 6.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-6.5.0-6-generic 6.5.0-6.6 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 6.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-extra-6.5.0-5-generic 6.5.0-5.5 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 6.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-extra-6.5.0-6-generic 6.5.0-6.6 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 6.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-nvidia-535-6.5.0-5-generic 6.5.0-5.5 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 6.5.0-5
ii linux-modules-nvidia-535-6.5.0-6-generic 6.5.0-6.6 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 6.5.0-6
ii linux-modules-nvidia-535-generic-hwe-22.04 6.5.0-6.6 amd64 Extra drivers for nvidia-535 for the generic-hwe-22.04 flavour
ii linux-objects-nvidia-535-6.5.0-5-generic 6.5.0-5.5 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 6.5.0-5 (objects)
ii l...

[Jack Howarth (jwhowarth)]

FYI, I see that same bug, with no content in the Help application, for both the 6.5.0-5.5 and 6.5.0-6.6 kernels. Only resorting to the change...

Exec=env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 yelp %u

or using Wayland suppresses the bug.

[Jack Howarth (jwhowarth)]

Actually, I just checked gnome-online-accounts in the gnome-control-center under X11 nvidia and it is also broken for the Google login. Clicking the Google Account under the Online Accounts options, produces and empty window whereas under Wayland nvidia, the sign in content is displayed. So https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/+bug/2023322 appears to be the same issue and remains unresolved in 23.10.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Ok, thanks. Then we can drop the rebuild idea, so closing this bug. I also added yelp to bug #2023322.