[radeon] Windows buttons gone, and titlebars are black, on specific programs on 17.10

[lotuspsychje]

Ubuntu 17.10 64bit Development version up to date @ 21/9/2017 on Xwayland

kernel: Linux ArtfullBOX 4.13.0-11-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 12 16:03:57 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Windows buttons are gone for specific programs like Firefox, hexchat, photoprint,chromium
(maybe more that i havent tested)
on a black window header with disformed white letters as window title

other programs have working buttons

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-11.12-generic 4.13.1
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Sep 21 14:17:17 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-31 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170830)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Could you please attach a screenshot of one of the affected application? Thanks.

[TJ (tj)]

I'd suspect the recent update to:

mesa (17.2.1-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release. (LP: #1716250)

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:42:16 +0300

I've only looked at Firefox's dependencies so far but of them all this is the only project updated in the past 2-3 days which supplies:

libwayland-egl1-mesa

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

@Jean-Baptiste #2

https://imgur.com/a/S3VCU

Cant add images neither in browsing in my folders, cause no files show anymore neither
also sluggish overall on launching programs etc, weird things happened

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

setting it to confirmed, but I definitely cannot reproduce it and didn't see any similar report.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What theme are you using? Could you add your syslog to the bug?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the journal error has "Locale is NULL" mentions which is a bit weird

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

theme is ambient

syslog: https://hastebin.com/vonexazane.sql

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

i think the overall lags in system,mouse and animations are related to this bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745032

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

theme is ambiance by default, tryed other themes but still the same issue

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

Graphics is a bit older ATI X800:

lotuspsychje@ArtfullBOX:~$ sudo lshw -C video
[sudo] wachtwoord voor lotuspsychje:
  *-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: R420 [Radeon X800 PRO/GTO AGP]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: agp agp-3.0 pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=32 mingnt=8
       resources: irq:16 memory:d8000000-dfffffff ioport:9000(size=256) memory:e9000000-e900ffff memory:c0000-dffff
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: R420 [Radeon X800 PRO/GTO] (Secondary)
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0.1
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm cap_list
       configuration: latency=32 mingnt=8
       resources: memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:e9010000-e901ffff

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

Logging out wayland, and logging in the xorg session brings back
the windows buttons normally so it must be a wayland issue?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think the specific programs you mention are X programs, so they use Xwayland.

It also sounds and looks like this is a radeon-specific problem.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

... so yes it sounds like it might be a regression from some Mesa update.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

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[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

The bug vanished after an update (cannot check anymore wich one)
i cannot reproduce it on ubuntu 18.04 anymore