Bug#885947: marco: After updating, restart (user or pc) and log in, desktop fails

[Santiago]

Package: marco
Version: 1.18.1-3
Severity: important


For some months, "apt-get upgrade" retains the packages of the latest version:

   libmarco-private1 (1.18.1-3 => 1.18.2-1)
   marco (1.18.1-3 => 1.18.2-1)
   marco-common (1.18.1-3 => 1.18.2-1)

If I force installation with "apt-get dist-upgrade", including a new package libxpresent1 (1.0.0-2+b10), and restart the user or the PC, after logging in, the desktop becomes unreadable as if it lost the refresh rate monitor.

Interestingly, the mouse icon appears and moves correctly through the unreadable screen.

If pulse ctrl+alt+f2, for a brief moment the desktop is displayed correctly, but if I return with ctrl+alt+f7 it follows the illegible graphic mode. You can only exit through console and poweroff.

It includes a small video and photo of the error.

       CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz @ 2x 3GHz
       RAM: 1004MiB / 3011MiB
       GPU: Mesa DRI nv25 
Resolution: 1152x864
        DE: MATE 1.18.2
        WM: Metacity (Marco)
 GTK Theme: 'Menta' [GTK2/3]
Icon Theme: menta
      Font: Sans 10


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages marco depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.26.1-2
ii  libc6                     2.25-5
ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.15.8-3
ii  libcairo2                 1.15.8-3
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0        0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0              0.30-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.54.2-4
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.22.26-2
ii  libgtop-2.0-11            2.38.0-2
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.9-2
ii  libmarco-private1         1.18.1-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.40.14-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.40.14-1
ii  libsm6                    2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-5
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxcursor1               1:1.1.15-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxinerama1              2:1.1.3-1+b3
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
ii  marco-common              1.18.1-3
ii  mate-desktop-common       1.18.0-1
ii  zenity                    3.26.0-2

marco recommends no packages.

marco suggests no packages.

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