Box appears on desktop after login and reconnection to wireless

[Mike Fassio]

Binary package hint: yelp

Thinkpad X31
New installation of Karmic (9.10)
Compiz not installed. No desktop effects are in use.

Occurs after login and when I switch or reconnect to wireless access points. The box appears for ~20 seconds and then disappears. Yelp appears to be the problem, but I a unsure why.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 1 10:52:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Mike, can you please post the output of "lspci -v" as an attachment to this bug-report. Or tell me what GPU and driver you are using? Your described problem looks very much like a driver-bug with the ati-video-driver for Xorg. Should that be the case you'll be able to work around that, but using the newer acceleration-method EXA, instead of XAA.

For reference - remember I'm just assuming here your machine has an ati GPU and you're victim of this particular bug - see LP: #426582

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.