Bitcoin top-level window unmapped

[Vasile Rotaru]

Binary package hint: compiz

When I launch bitcoin linux client (bitcoin.org) the GUI does not pop up. It does when the window manager is metacity (Ubuntu classic - no effects)

xlsclients finds bitcoin and wininfo tells me that:

xwininfo: Window id: 0x4600001 "bitcoin"

  Absolute upper-left X: 10
  Absolute upper-left Y: 10
  Relative upper-left X: 10
  Relative upper-left Y: 10
  Width: 10
  Height: 10
  Depth: 24
  Visual: 0x23
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsUnMapped
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners: +10+10 -1900+10 -1900-1060 +10-1060
  -geometry 10x10+10+10

The problems seems to be: 'Map State: IsUnMapped' from the above.

the system:

Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.9.4+bzr20110411-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.4+bzr20110411-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.4+bzr20110411-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://md.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.9.4+bzr20110408-0ubuntu2+r2745+201104111049 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity/daily/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.4+bzr20110411-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Tue Apr 12 07:46:40 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-04-01 14:43:51.543573
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 fglrx, 8.840, 2.6.38-7-generic, x86_64: installed
 fglrx, 8.840, 2.6.38-5-generic, x86_64: installed
 fglrx, 8.840, 2.6.38-8-generic, x86_64: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350] [1002:954f] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:e990]
JockeyStatus: xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERANTONAL CO.,LTD MS-7302
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=cebc3ffc-36be-4027-9d0e-bca8c97ded0f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (10 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/16/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V2.0
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MS-7302
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERANTONAL CO.,LTD
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERANTONAL CO.,LTD
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV2.0:bd04/16/2008:svnMICRO-STARINTERANTONALCO.,LTD:pnMS-7302:pvr1.0:rvnMICRO-STARINTERANTONALCO.,LTD:rnMS-7302:rvr1.0:cvnMICRO-STARINTERANTONALCO.,LTD:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: MS-7302
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERANTONAL CO.,LTD
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110411-0ubuntu1
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu11
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

[Todd Lyons (tlyons)]

The client I had built under 10.10 a few months ago stopped working after the 11.04 upgrade. By downloading the latest bitcoin gui client snapshot build from:
http://bitcoin.bluematt.me/bitcoin-nightly/ubuntu-11.04/
dated May 1 2011, it now works fine on my 11.04 with Gnome, with no changes to the libs or to the desktop.

Further info found here:
http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=6299.0

[cako (goldencako)]

I can confirm this bug on 10.10 with bitcoin version 0.321.

[Daniel Holbert (dholbert)]

cako: This didn't previously affect Ubuntu 10.10. As I understand it, this was due to wxwidgets (bitcoin's widget toolkit) having a bad interaction on Ubuntu 11.04. See discussion in the thread from Comment #2 here.

If you're hitting problems with Bitcoin not showing up on Ubuntu 10.10, I'd guess that you're hitting a different underlying bug.

[Vasile Rotaru (vrotaru-md)]

Quoting from: http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/13146

"... workaround for broken window managers which claim to support _NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS, but don't respond to it"

If this is the case that it is an (upstream) compiz bug. If not than it is a wxwidgets bug, (which seem to be already fixed) and then this bug can be closed.

[Salih EMIN (salih-emin)]

I can confirm that bitcoin-0.3.22 on Ubuntu 11.04 64bit doesn't have this bug and the gui starts see the attachment

[Uli Tillich (utillich)]

I can not confirm this with the latest client (0.3.23-beta).

[Guillermo Lo Coco (glococo)]

Version 0.3.24-beta is working well in Unity 3D, ( also enabled many default disabled compiz effects)

Using Ubuntu 11.04 with experimental 3d nvidia support.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Any details of which commit fixed this bug, Sam?

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

This is no longer an issue.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix released in:
compiz (1:0.9.7.0~bzr2995-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low