[solved] Opera & Sublime Text have graphic errors after system upgrade

Question

Hi all,
I hope this was not already answered, but I couldn't find anything in the wiki or the forums.
Since a pacman -Syu yesterday, Opera (from official repo) and Sublime Text (from the AUR) have some weird graphical glitches:
Opera: http://i.imgur.com/7XfPK.png
Sublime Text: http://i.imgur.com/q5guw.png
(The menus in Sublime Text do work without graphical glitches, I am pretty sure they are drawn with GTK. The rest uses some custom drawing methods AFAIK.)
Other programs, including 3D-accelerated games, work fine like before.
I first suspected the catalyst driver, so I went to the wiki and read that it is now in the official repos. So I installed that version. Same effects. So back to the version from Vi0L0s catalyst repo. Did still not work. Then I tried the catalyst-generator package with the same effects.
Then I looked in pacman.log to see what was upgraded. I then downgraded the kernel and all packages that seemed to have something to do with graphics. Still the same error. Downgraded more packages and finally managed to break X11 :-/.
I then upgraded everything again so at least most things work.
I now have this kernel version: 3.6.2-1-ARCH
I am using systemd.
My graphics card has a Radeon HD 7750 Chip.
My pacman.log: http://pastebin.com/RK8cngNq (The upgrade that caused this was at 2012-10-16 14:43)
Has someone a idea what I can do?
Thanks,
Kevin
EDIT:
I now run pacman -Syu on my notebook. Both programs work like a charm. The notebook has an Intel GPU. So it must be an issue with the raden driver. I'll try downrading that again...
Yet another EDIT:
Didn't work. Here is what I have done to downgrade:
1. Removed installed catalyst version (installed libgl and lib32-libgl temporarilly so pacman would not remove all 3D-related stuff).
2. Downloaded all catalyst related packages from the Arch Rollback Machine from 2012-10-08 and installed them using pacman -U
3. Downgraded X and other related(?) packages:
# cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
# pacman -Uf xorg-server-common-1.12.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz xorg-server-1.12.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz xf86-input-evdev-2.7.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz freeglut-2.8.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz khrplatform-devel-8.0.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz mesa-8.0.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz lib32-mesa-8.0.4-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libglapi-8.0.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libgbm-8.0.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libegl-8.0.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz xf86-video-vesa-2.3.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Had a running X after this, but Opera and Sublime Text are still broken.
Now upgraded again...
Last edited by kch42 (2012-10-19 14:39:13)

Answer 1

To find out, which libraries are involved, I executed opera and subl using strace and then went to a python shell to filter the output for libraries (finding stuff that looks like lib*.so, only catching the middle part) and printing the libraries that both strace logs had in common.
These libraries are loaded by both programs:
X11
Xau
Xcomposite
Xcursor
Xdamage
Xdmcp
Xext
Xfixes
Xi
Xinerama
Xrandr
Xrender
atk-1.0
bz2
c
cairo
canberra
canberra-gtk
canberra-gtk-module
dl
equinox
expat
ffi
fontconfig
freetype
gcc_s
gdk-x11-2.0
gdk_pixbuf-2.0
gio-2.0
glib-2.0
gmodule-2.0
gobject-2.0
gthread-2.0
gtk-x11-2.0
ltdl
m
ncursesw
nss_files
ogg
pango-1.0
pangocairo-1.0
pangoft2-1.0
pcre
pixman-1
pixmap
png15
pthread
readline
resolv
rt
stdc++
tdb
vorbis
vorbisfile
xcb
xcb-render
xcb-shm
z
Some of these libraries have nothing to do with graphics, after filtering these out:
X11
Xau
Xcomposite
Xcursor
Xdamage
Xdmcp
Xext
Xfixes
Xi
Xinerama
Xrandr
Xrender
atk-1.0
cairo
canberra
canberra-gtk
canberra-gtk-module
equinox
fontconfig
freetype
gdk-x11-2.0
gdk_pixbuf-2.0
gtk-x11-2.0
pango-1.0
pangocairo-1.0
pangoft2-1.0
pixman-1
pixmap
png15
xcb
xcb-render
xcb-shm
Both use a lot of X* libraries. But I already downgraded X and the graphics driver and that didn't work...
I still have no idea, but perhaps someone has?