CentOS - May 2015 - Constant screen flicker with Firefox browser

Hi Guys,

I'm facing this issue: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8482

It came after upgrading to 7.1 and only Firefox is affected, Chrome is
working.

What I've tried so far:

- Tried NVIDIA drivers 340.65, 346.59 and 346.72
- Upgraded Firefox to 38
- Tried Safe more / Refresh Firefox
- Tried to turn HW accel. off in Firefox

None of these has helped to eliminate the issue.

Do you know how to work this around?

Many thanks,
L?szl?

On 05/14/2015 08:36 AM, L?szl? Csontos wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I'm facing this issue: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8482
> 
> It came after upgrading to 7.1 and only Firefox is affected, Chrome is
> working.
> 
> What I've tried so far:
> 
> - Tried NVIDIA drivers 340.65, 346.59 and 346.72
> - Upgraded Firefox to 38
> - Tried Safe more / Refresh Firefox
> - Tried to turn HW accel. off in Firefox
> 
> None of these has helped to eliminate the issue.
> 
> Do you know how to work this around?
> 
> Many thanks,
> L?szl?
It sounds like you are experiencing this problem
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724788

The fix is a two line patch that is released against clutter 1.16,
but it applies cleanly against 1.14 (which is in CentOS 7, maybe this
gets fixed with the upcoming Gnome rebase).

I rebuilt the clutter rpms with the patch and the flickering problem
went away.

-Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the hint.

I'm trying to rebuild the original SRPM without the patch for know, but
I'm
getting the following error.

rpmbuild --rebuild /tmp/clutter-1.14.4-12.el7.src.rpm
...
checking for XIAllowTouchEvents... yes
checking for XIScrollClassInfo.number... yes
checking for XkbQueryExtension... yes
checking for GDK_PIXBUF... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gdk-pixbuf-2.0) were not met:

Package libpng15 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpng15.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libpng15', required by 'GdkPixbuf', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GDK_PIXBUF_CFLAGS
and GDK_PIXBUF_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.o3QHFY (%build)
...

I've checked that libpng15.pc is in /usr/lib/pkgconfig. Tried to set
PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/lib/pkgconfig manually, but the error is the same.

Do you have any idea how to work this around?

Cheers,
Laszlo


2015-05-15 4:15 GMT+02:00 Thomas Eriksson <thomas.eriksson at
slac.stanford.edu
>:
> On 05/14/2015 08:36 AM, L?szl? Csontos wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I'm facing this issue: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8482
> >
> > It came after upgrading to 7.1 and only Firefox is affected, Chrome is
> > working.
> >
> > What I've tried so far:
> >
> > - Tried NVIDIA drivers 340.65, 346.59 and 346.72
> > - Upgraded Firefox to 38
> > - Tried Safe more / Refresh Firefox
> > - Tried to turn HW accel. off in Firefox
> >
> > None of these has helped to eliminate the issue.
> >
> > Do you know how to work this around?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > L?szl?
>
> It sounds like you are experiencing this problem
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724788
>
> The fix is a two line patch that is released against clutter 1.16,
> but it applies cleanly against 1.14 (which is in CentOS 7, maybe this
> gets fixed with the upcoming Gnome rebase).
>
> I rebuilt the clutter rpms with the patch and the flickering problem
> went away.
>
> -Thomas
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