Bug#1126862: yelp: invisible content with NVIDIA graphics

[Tim McConnell]

Hi Jeremy, 
The Nvidia information is as follows: 
NVIDIA-SMI 550.163.01             Driver Version: 550.163.01     CUDA
Version: 12.4  GeForce GTX 1080 bridged. 

-- 
Thanks!

Tim McConnell
tmcconnell168 at gmail.com


On Mon, 2026-02-02 at 15:24 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 yelp: invisible content with NVIDIA graphics
> Control: reassign -1 src:webkit2gtk 2.50.4-1+b1
> Control: affects -1 src:yelp
> 
> This kind of bug is likely a webkit2gtk bug so I'm reassigning.
> 
> Please be specific about what NVIDIA graphics hardware you have.
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha
> 
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 3:17 PM Tim McConnell
> <tmcconnell168 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Package: yelp
> > Version: 49.0-5
> > Severity: normal
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: tmcconnell168 at gmail.com
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> >  What led up to the situation? Unknown
> > 
> >  What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> >      ineffective)?Attempt to launch a help screen in any program,
> > it fails to
> > show any text, I tried launching yelp from a command line and I
> > still get the
> > blank white screen.
> > 
> > What was the outcome of this action? A blank white screen shows
> > with this in
> > the command line output:
> >         yelp
> > src/nv_gbm.c:288: GBM-DRV error (nv_gbm_create_device_native):
> > nv_common_gbm_create_device failed (ret=-1)
> > 
> > pci id for fd 28: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > pci id for fd 29: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > pci id for fd 30: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > pci id for fd 29: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > pci id for fd 30: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > src/nv_gbm.c:288: GBM-DRV error (nv_gbm_create_device_native):
> > nv_common_gbm_create_device failed (ret=-1)
> > 
> > pci id for fd 24: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > pci id for fd 25: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > pci id for fd 26: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > pci id for fd 25: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > pci id for fd 26: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> > KMS: DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Permission denied
> > KMS: DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Permission denied
> > Failed to create GBM buffer of size 960x584: Permission denied
> > 
> >  What outcome did you expect instead? To be able to view help
> > files.
> > If it matters I'm using MATE 1.28.2 for a desktop with NVIDIA GPUs.
> > 
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: forky/sid
> >   APT prefers testing
> >   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > Foreign Architectures: i386
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 6.18.5+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
> > TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> > LANGUAGE not set
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> > LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> > 
> > Versions of packages yelp depends on:
> > ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.49.0-4
> > ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.8.3-1
> > ii  libc6                                        2.42-11
> > ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.86.3-5
> > ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.20.3+ds-3
> > ii  libwebkitgtk-6.0-4                           2.50.4-1+b1
> > ii  libyelp-1-0                                  49.0-5
> > ii  man-db                                       2.13.1-1
> > ii  python3                                      3.13.7-1+b1
> > ii  python3-distro                               1.9.0-1
> > ii  user-session-migration                       0.5.1
> > ii  yelp-xsl                                     49.0-2