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. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
