Bug#911648: gnome-shell: Gnome shell menus are stuck in the state they were opened at (no visual update from interactions)

[Mike Hommey]

Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.30.1-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

For a few weeks, now, the gnome shell menus don't visually respond to
interaction. Examples of what I mean:

- click on the clock in the middle of the gnome shell top-bar. This
  opens the notifications and calendar. Click on some date in the
  calendar: nothing happens.

- click on the icons on the top-right. Try to interact with sound
  volume, brigthness. You'll see no change the the control bars, while
  the volume or brigthness are actually adjusted properly.

- In the same top-right menu, try to open the wifi, bluetooth, or
  network submenus. Nothing visually happens, yet the subsequent
  interactions will work as if the submenus had been displayed. So for
  example, if I click on the power submenu, then on what still appears
  to be the user submenu, I get the power configuration tool, because after
  the power submenu opens, that's what would appear at the initial
  location of the user submenu.

Mike


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.0-1
ii  evolution-data-server                        3.30.1-1
ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.45-1
ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0                             2.30.0-2
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.58.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.28.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     3.28.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                               3.30.1-1
ii  gir1.2-geoclue-2.0                           2.5.0-2
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.58.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.28.2-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.30.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.24.1-2
ii  gir1.2-gweather-3.0                          3.28.2-1
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.19-1
ii  gir1.2-mutter-3                              3.30.1-2
ii  gir1.2-nm-1.0                                1.12.4-1
ii  gir1.2-nma-1.0                               1.8.18-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.42.4-3
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-21
ii  gir1.2-rsvg-2.0                              2.40.20-3
ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.64.1-3
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.99.8-2
ii  gjs                                          1.52.4-1
ii  gnome-backgrounds                            3.30.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.30.1.2-1
ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.30.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.28.1-1
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                           2.30.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.27-6
ii  libcairo2                                    1.15.12-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-6
ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.12-2
ii  libecal-1.2-19                               3.30.1-1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-23                        3.30.1-1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.28.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.58.0-1
ii  libgjs0g                                     1.52.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.58.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.58.1-2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.14.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.1-2
ii  libical3                                     3.0.4-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.4.4-1
ii  libmutter-3-0                                3.30.1-2
ii  libnm0                                       1.12.4-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.4-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.42.4-3
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-21
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-21
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      12.2-2
ii  libpulse0                                    12.2-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18.6-3
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-5
ii  libsystemd0                                  239-10
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.3-1
ii  mutter                                       3.30.1-2
ii  python3                                      3.6.6-1

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  bolt                  0.5-1
ii  chrome-gnome-shell    10.1-1
ii  gdm3                  3.30.1-1
ii  gkbd-capplet          3.26.0-3
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.30.1-1
ii  gnome-user-docs       3.30.1-1
pn  iio-sensor-proxy      <none>
ii  switcheroo-control    1.2-1
ii  unzip                 6.0-21

Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:
ii  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12   0.24.1-2
ii  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2  0.8.2-3

-- no debconf information