Transparent terminal windows and black backgrounds in other windows after kernel update
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
compiz (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This has been happening for a while, but now I think I've narrowed this down to kernel updates. Whenever I apply the updates, after I reboot my terminal windows are all transparent and thus unusable. Also, other windows and menus, e.g. from the indicators, have a black background. Changing the theme settings, disabling transparency in gnome-terminal and logging out and back in do not have any effect on this behaviour. The only way I've found of getting back to normal is to open System Settings -> Hardware -> Additional Drivers and switch between "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current)" and "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (version current-updates)", so maybe DKMS is involved here somewhere.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.7.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 295.20 Mon Feb 6 21:07:30 PST 2012
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu2)
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: dd3689fa6394f60
CheckboxSystem: b633b4f40868d49
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Mar 12 10:59:03 2012
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-12-12 20:56:03.215224
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-current, 295.20, 3.2.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-
virtualbox, 4.1.8, 3.2.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
virtualbox-guest, 4.1.8, 3.2.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] [10de:0a29] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:9067]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
JockeyStatus:
xorg:nvidia_
xorg:nvidia_
MachineType: Sony Corporation VPCF11J0E
PackageArchitec
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-13 (59 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 02/26/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: R0260Y6
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: VPCF11J0E
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.30-1ubuntu1
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Changed in compiz (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
OK, so this time it goes and makes a liar out of me. Switching from nvidia- current- updates to nvidia-current did *not* resolve the issue, but logging out and back in again after that, the display is back to normal.