On 02/20/2013 01:10 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 09:39 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered.
>
> I get a large volume of e-mail, and very often I interact with a site
> that brings up a lot of message boxes, "suggestion boxes" (for
> auto-filling from a few keystroke clues), and bringing up apps after
> they were minimized to the system tray or the task bar. Now why is it
> that, after maybe two hours of operation, those popups come up and are
> totally black? The only way to solve the problem, that I have found, is
> to shut down. And even then, I can't even see what I'm doing, but have
> to guess where the icons are for executing a controlled shutdown. (I can
> always bring up a command-line login screen, log in as root, and then
> shut down. But that doesn't seem to solve the problem for the next session.)
>
> And when I log back on, everything's fine--until it starts happening
> again, after several more window draws.
>
> What could be causing this? Where do I even look for error logs and the
> like?
>
> I never had this problem in any other version of Fedora. I'm having it
> now, and it's driving me nuts.
>
> For the record, I used the "upgrading from F17 to F18 using yum" method.
> I even used the elaborate script that walks you through rpmnew and
> rpmsave reconciliation. And I've kept up with every system update since
> then. Actually, the problem began about three kernel updates back.
>
> Temlakos
Maybe this is your problem?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906556
If so, it looks like a fix is in the works at some point, maybe even
soon.
Understand: I use KDE, not Gnome. I don't know whether that lets me out
of that bug.
But now that you mention Eclipse, I installed it recently, just to try
to build a development environment for Android mobile apps. (I got my
first Android device, and thought about how I could build an app to
drive some traffic to my own Web site.) I brought Eclipse up just once,
to look around in it. And ever since I did that, this issue has come up.
I also hear from another source that this issue has plagued F16 and F17,
in the first weeks following their respective releases. Well, I missed
F16 completely, and didn't install F17 until November, when the release
cycle was almost gone. And now I upgraded to F18 only a week ago, and
this is what I get--though again, after I installed Eclipse and ran it once.
Temlakos