Weird interface of gnome after upgraded to 3.6

Question

Hi there,
After upgrade to gnome 3.6, I see some really weird problems out there, and search around didn't return back any clue. One of the most annoying is as shown in the picture
The same phenomenon also happens to icons/text of the top-right corner and the right side text of the "show applications" panel. All themes/text in use are just default.
I also find another strange thing about locale. I have set my locale correctly in locale.conf
[04:40:47] [~] : cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
But type in locale command in gnome-terminal returns
[04:54:20] [~] : locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=ar_EG.utf8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
LC_NUMERIC="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_TIME="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
LC_PAPER="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_NAME="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ar_EG.utf8"
LC_ALL=
In the console (Ctrl+Alt+F2-6), however, the result of locale command is correct. I have no idea where is this "ar_EG.utf8" comes from....
Any similar situations or solutions? Thanks sincerely.

Answer 1

PaulSamways wrote:
I'm experiencing the same video corruption as well, looking around other forums it may have to do with the OSS Radeon drivers and the latest round of updates for Gnome/libGL that came yesterday.
Looking at the kernel messages (dmesg) reveals the following error, which I'm pretty sure is new since the updates:
[drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -12!
Yup, it might be a radeon driver problem. I did a fresh installation on my laptop, which has a intel integrated graphics card, there is no such problem there.
About the second problem, it turns out that we have to choose languages in Region/Languages settings explicitly as Gnome 3.6 introduces this new feature, otherwise the Character Encoding system of Gnome would be unspecified and cause those problems.