libnotify notifications appear as weird tartan patterns

[Chris Moore]

before upgrading to 9.10, pidgin would show received messages in a libnotify popup. Now, instead of showing received messages, it pops up a random tartan pattern instead.

Running "notify-send hello" in a terminal produces the same effect.

No text is visible, just a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines of apparently random colours.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 17 19:22:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: libnotify1 0.4.5-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: libnotify
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[A. Walton (awalton)]

Can you please attach a screenshot and indicate whether you have notification-daemon or notify-osd installed. Thanks in advance.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

Here's a screenshot showing the version number of the packages you mention, and an example corrupted notification.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

I didn't expect it to let me change the status, but given that I'm allowed to, what status to I use to mark that I've answered the questions that were making this 'incomplete'?

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Chris, can you please add the output of lspci to the bug-report or tell us what driver and GPU you have in your machine? This looks like a driver bug.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

Hi Mirco. I could provide the details you're asking for, but the bug
doesn't happen on my machine so I don't see how it would help. Would you
prefer that I run 'lspci' on the same machine I took the screenshot on?

I don't have physical access to it, and don't know anything about what
components are in it. If there are some commands you would like to see the
output of, I can provide that.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

On the affected PC I see this:

deb@deb:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and
Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev
02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev
02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev
02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY
[Radeon 7000/VE]
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25)
02:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
02:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 08)
02:0c.0 Communication controller: ESS Technology ES2898 Modem (rev 02)

Also:

deb@deb:~$ grep -i loadmodule /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) LoadModule: "dri2"
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "i2c"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
(II) LoadModule: "xaa"
(II) LoadModule: "theatre_detect"
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 00:28 +0000 schrieb Chris Moore:

> On the affected PC I see this:
> ...
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY
> [Radeon 7000/VE]
> ...

 *sigh* I was expecting this. This is a bug in the xorg-video driver for
ATI. It's not an issue of notify-osd. notify-osd just runs fine, either
composited or non-composited, under intel and nvidia. I'll reassign this
to the correct package.

Best regards ...

Mirco