Bug#427384: compiz broken in lenny after libc6 upgrade
On Sun, Jun 3, 2007 at 17:29:49 +0100, Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> Given there probably aren't many compiz 0.2.2-1 users in lenny, I'd
> thought I'd report this.
>
> I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and compiz worked wonderfully before 02/05/07 where
> the libc6 upgrade and a slew of other packages came through.
>
> After this upgrade compiz has failed on two machines here with KDE.
> One's an IBM X40 Thinkpad with and intel GFX card while the other is a
> 3200+ AMD (32-bit lenny) with an NVIDIA card.
It might be useful to find out exactly which package upgrade caused
this. I'm not a compiz user, so I have no idea.
> Both machines show the same problem, and that's although compiz loads as
> it did before, you can't see much changing on the screen. So for
> example, although I'll click the 'k' for the KDE menu, you don't see it
> come up, however it is there if you click where the menu items would be.
> Similarly, if you pressed control-alt-delete and then press 'alt-e', KDE
> will log out gracefully.
>
> I don't know what could have happened however I fear that it'll be some
> time before a usable KDE and compiz in lenny will be available again :(
>
> Maybe it's time to push through 0.3.6 ;0)
>
compiz 0.5.0 is available in unstable.
Cheers,
Julien
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