No text in libnotify pop-ups

[Steve McGrath]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

Not sure if this is actually a bug in notify-osd, Xorg, Gnome, the kernel, ????.

Libnotify popups have no text or icon. Just a few scattered pixels.

They also don't blur/fade when the mouse pointer gets near them, they simply disappear.

This didn't happen with Jaunty on this laptop, and does not happen with Karmic installed from the Beta ISO on my other machine. Only on this laptop installed with the Karmic RC iso.

I'm attaching a screenshot showing the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 28 03:19:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
GtkTheme: Human
IconTheme: Humanity
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Compaq Evo N600c
Package: notify-osd 0.9.24-0ubuntu1
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   3.3V 32-bit PC Card
 Socket 1:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=0f5ce8a2-8e9f-495a-9b66-36b20a8ae135 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: notify-osd
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
WindowManager: metacity
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:13575): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:13575): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:13607): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:13614): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (yelp:13950): Yelp-WARNING **: Failed to load config file: No such file or directory
dmi.bios.date: 04/13/2002
dmi.bios.vendor: Compaq
dmi.bios.version: 686DF v2.49
dmi.board.name: 0744
dmi.board.vendor: Compaq
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Z0D00001
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Compaq
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnCompaq:bvr686DFv2.49:bd04/13/2002:svnCompaq:pnEvoN600c:pvr:rvnCompaq:rn0744:rvr:cvnCompaq:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Evo N600c
dmi.sys.vendor: Compaq

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Looking at your lspci.txt and the xorg-video-driver you've an ATI GPU in your system. What you're seeing is a bug in the xserver-xorg-video-ati when using the XAA acceleration-method. Be sure to switch to EXA (in xorg.conf). I'm reassigning this to xserver-xorg-video-ati. It's a known bug and therefore also a duplicate of LP: #429295.