Bug#709684: gnome-shell: characters missing on top bar, menu, and sometimes the application menu (specifically a e l r and t)

Larry Johnson larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com
Sun May 26 12:16:15 UTC 2013


I'm just learning the debian bug tracking system, so I hope I understood
the instructions correctly that replying to this message is the proper
means of adding information to a bug report.

Since I filed the bug I've discovered several things:

1) I initially installed the i386 version of wheezy, and should have
installed amd64.  Since I reinstalled the problem has occurred only once.

2) Before the offending reboot (with the amd64 version) kernel messages of
the following sort were spewed to my messages file:

May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093583] [drm] nouveau
0000:00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ch 3 (0x0006b000) subc 4 class 0x0039 mthd 0x0300
data 0x00000003
May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093588] [drm] nouveau
0000:00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: ILLEGAL_MTHD nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT
PROTECTION_FAULT
May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093594] [drm] nouveau
0000:00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ch 3 (0x0006b000) subc 4 class 0x0039 mthd 0x0304
data 0x00000003
May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093598] [drm] nouveau
0000:00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: ILLEGAL_MTHD nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT
PROTECTION_FAULT
May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093604] [drm] nouveau
0000:00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ch 3 (0x0006b000) subc 4 class 0x0039 mthd 0x0308
data 0x012001df
May 25 20:02:16 nerowolfe kernel: [32079.928230] nouveau_ratelimit: 32
callbacks suppressed
May 25 20:02:16 nerowolfe kernel: [32079.928238] [drm] nouveau
0000:00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT
PROTECTION_FAULT
May 25 20:02:16 nerowolfe kernel: [32079.928257] [drm] nouveau
0000:00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ch 3 (0x0006b000) subc 2 class 0x3089 mthd 0x0300
data 0x0a0a000a

3) Here is the output of lspci on my system:

00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 1.1 Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 2.0 Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev
a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE
nForce 430] (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k Data/Fax
Modem

4) Here is the line from dmesg on detecting the NV40


As I stated I am new to the bug reporting system here, and wish to submit
good reports.  Anything I've done wrong or left out please let me know.



On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Larry Felton Johnson <
larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.4.2-7
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
>    * What led up to the situation?
>
> Newly installed Debian 7
>
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>
> So far I haven't figured out a workaround or quick fix.  This seems to be
> identical to bug 636784, which was closed last year with no resolution.
>
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> *** End of the template - remove these lines ***
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-3
> ii  gconf-service                                3.2.5-1+build1
> ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.21-8
> ii  gir1.2-atk-1.0                               2.4.0-2
> ii  gir1.2-caribou-1.0                           0.4.4-1
> ii  gir1.2-clutter-1.0                           1.10.8-2
> ii  gir1.2-cogl-1.0                              1.10.2-7
> ii  gir1.2-coglpango-1.0                         1.10.2-7
> ii  gir1.2-folks-0.6                             0.6.9-1+b1
> ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.32.1-1
> ii  gir1.2-gconf-2.0                             3.2.5-1+build1
> ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.4.1-3
> ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     3.4.2-3
> ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0                         2.26.1-1
> ii  gir1.2-gee-1.0                               0.6.4-2
> ii  gir1.2-gkbd-3.0                              3.4.0.2-1
> ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.32.1-1
> ii  gir1.2-gmenu-3.0                             3.4.2-5
> ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.4.2-1
> ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.4.2-6
> ii  gir1.2-json-1.0                              0.14.2-1
> ii  gir1.2-mutter-3.0                            3.4.1-5
> ii  gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0                    0.9.4.0-10
> ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.30.0-1
> ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-3
> ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.38.1-2
> ii  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12                    0.18.2-2
> ii  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2                   0.4.0-1
> ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.9.17-1
> ii  gjs                                          1.32.0-5
> ii  gnome-bluetooth                              3.4.2-1
> ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic                    3.4.0-2
> ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3
> ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.4.2-7
> ii  gnome-themes-standard                        3.4.2-2.1
> ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.4.2-3
> ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
> ii  libc6                                        2.13-38
> ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-3
> ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-3
> ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-6
> ii  libclutter-1.0-0                             1.10.8-2
> ii  libcogl-pango0                               1.10.2-7
> ii  libcogl9                                     1.10.2-7
> ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.6-2
> ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.6.8-1
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.100.2-1
> ii  libebook-1.2-13                              3.4.4-3
> ii  libecal-1.2-11                               3.4.4-3
> ii  libedataserver-1.2-16                        3.4.4-3
> ii  libedataserverui-3.0-1                       3.4.4-3
> ii  libffi5                                      3.0.10-3
> ii  libfolks25                                   0.6.9-1+b1
> ii  libgck-1-0                                   3.4.1-3
> ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.5-1+build1
> ii  libgcr-3-1                                   3.4.1-3
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
> ii  libgee2                                      0.6.4-2
> ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.32.1-1
> ii  libgjs0b [libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0]           1.32.0-5
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]                     8.0.5-4+deb7u1
> ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
> ii  libgnome-keyring0                            3.4.1-1
> ii  libgnome-menu-3-0                            3.4.2-5
> ii  libgstreamer0.10-0                           0.10.36-1.2
> ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-6
> ii  libical0                                     0.48-2
> ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           0.14.2-1
> ii  libmozjs185-1.0                              1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4
> ii  libmutter0                                   3.4.1-5
> ii  libnm-glib4                                  0.9.4.0-10
> ii  libnm-util2                                  0.9.4.0-10
> ii  libnspr4                                     2:4.9.2-1
> ii  libnspr4-0d                                  2:4.9.2-1
> ii  libp11-kit0                                  0.12-3
> ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
> ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-3
> ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-3
> ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      2.0-6.1
> ii  libpulse0                                    2.0-6.1
> ii  libsoup2.4-1                                 2.38.1-2
> ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-1
> ii  libtelepathy-glib0                           0.18.2-2
> ii  libtelepathy-logger2                         0.4.0-1
> ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
> ii  libxcomposite1                               1:0.4.3-2
> ii  libxdamage1                                  1:1.1.3-2
> ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
> ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0-4+deb7u1
> ii  libxi6                                       2:1.6.1-1+deb7u1
> ii  libxml2                                      2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
> ii  python                                       2.7.3-4
> ii  telepathy-mission-control-5                  1:5.12.3-1
>
> Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
> ii  gkbd-capplet            3.4.0.2-1
> ii  gnome-contacts          3.4.1-1+b1
> ii  gnome-control-center    1:3.4.3.1-2
> ii  gnome-session-fallback  3.4.2.1-4
> ii  gnome-user-guide        3.4.2-1+build1
> ii  unzip                   6.0-8
>
> gnome-shell suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>



-- 

Amat Victoria Carum
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