Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone "bad"...

[Jake Moe]

On 07/26/10 12:58, pk wrote:
> (seems like this message got lost somehow...)
>
> Hi!
>
> Yesterday I got an update of said apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey)
> so I updated them (see list of version and possibly related parts
> below). Now all of them exhibit a strange phenomenon: Often, the window,
> or parts thereof are not redrawn, just cleared, which makes it hard to
> see web pages and mail. In order to force a redraw I have to resize the
> app, which is annoying.
>
> I run the latest ati binary ati-drivers-10.6 which ran fine with the
> previous versions, so I don't think that's the problem.
>
> Does anyone else see this problem or know the solution? It's only
> firefox, seamonkey and thunderbird that exhibits this problem.
>
> x11-libs:cairo-1.8.10:20100723-161942.log
> x11-plugins:enigmail-1.1.2-r1:20100723-172804.log
> www-client:mozilla-firefox-3.6.7:20100723-165946.log
> www-client:seamonkey-2.0.6:20100723-165841.log
> xulrunner-1.9.2.7-r1:20100723-163329.log
> mail-client:thunderbird-3.1.1:20100723-172616.log
>
> Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0,
> 2.6.34-gentoo-r2_SMP_PREEMPT_100717 i686)
> =================================================================
> System uname:
> Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r2_SMP_PREEMPT_100717-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
> Timestamp of tree: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:45:02 +0000
> app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37
> dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
> dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r2
> dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
> sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
> sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
> sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
> sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.3-r2
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
> sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
> ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 sun-bcla-java-vm"
> CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/X11/app-defaults/ /usr/share/X11/xkb
> /usr/share/applications/ /var/lib/hsqldb"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
> /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
> /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d
> /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
> CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch
> protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/
> ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo
> http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo
> http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
> LANG="en_US.utf8"
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed"
> LINGUAS="en sv en_GB sv_SE sv-SE en_US"
> MAKEOPTS="-j5"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
> --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
> --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise
> /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa ansi asf audiofile avi bash-completion
> bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cdparanoia cdr
> cli cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups cxx dga divx4linux dlloader doc
> dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emacs encode examples exif fbcon ffmpeg
> fftw filepicker fits flac foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gd gdbm gif
> gimp ginac glitz glut gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk2 guile iconv icq
> imagemagick imap imlib jabber java jpeg junit kerberos ladcca lapack
> latex lcms leim libdts liblzo libwww lm_sensors mad matroska memlimit
> mhash mime mjpeg mmap mmx mng modules mozilla moznopango mozsvg mp3 mpeg
> mplayer mudflap mythtv ncurses nls nowin noxft nptl nptlonly ogg openal
> openexr opengl openmp pam pcntl pcre pdf pdflib perl pic pie plotutils
> png posix postgresql ppds pppd ptp2 python qhull quicktime readline
> recode reflection restrict-javascript ruby sasl scanner schroedinger sdl
> session shared sharedmem smp sndfile sockets sox speex spl sse sse2 ssl
> svg sysfs sysvipc szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff timidity
> toolame truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd
> videos vorbis win32codecs wmf wxgtk1 x264 x86 xanim xforms xine xorg xpm
> xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm
> alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug
> ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route
> share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
> authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
> authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi
> cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter
> file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime
> mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir
> usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc"
> INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse magellan" KERNEL="linux"
> LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb
> ncurses text" LINGUAS="en sv en_GB sv_SE sv-SE en_US"
> RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="plustek" USERLAND="GNU"
> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fglrx vesa radeonhd" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd
> pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition
> tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
> Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK,
> LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter K
I had a similar issue the other day with Thunderbird (I've been trying
Chromium lately, so I can't comment on Firefox).  I ended up changing
drivers from fglrx to radeon, and the issue went away.  I also was
seeing a slow "redraw" of xterm windows when I switched desktops in
FVWM; I could see the window being drawn from top to bottom.  That too
improved with the radeon driver.  However, this is a new build (got a
new work laptop the other day), so I can't comment on whether older
versions of Thunderbird had similar issues.

Jake Moe