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GNOME 3 rendering broken on natty guests

Bug #786086 reported by HX_unbanned
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Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

On May 166 there was release of VBox 4.0.8 with VERY IMPORTANT fix for Ubuntu users:

3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15

Please provide packages on PPA or links for DEB as soon as possible.

Tags: workaround
HX_unbanned (linards-liepins)
tags: added: needs-packaging
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

summary: - VirtualBox 4.0.8 not jet built for Natty
+ [needs-packaging] VirtualBox 4.0.8 not jet built for Natty
Changed in virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote :

I'm sure this can be fixed in natty without upgrading the whole VirtualBox version.
Have you actually verified that the rendering is broken?

tags: removed: needs-packaging
summary: - [needs-packaging] VirtualBox 4.0.8 not jet built for Natty
+ GNOME 3 rendering broken on natty guests
Changed in virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Undecided
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Michael Thayer (michael-thayer) wrote :

http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/37104 and http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/37105 were the two relevant changesets that I am aware of (they are packaging fixes, but there may have been actual code fixes too that I missed.) 4.0.8 is supposed to contain nothing butcherry picked bug fixes over 4.0.6 (I suppose sometimes we stretch the term "bug fix" a bit) but I don't know what Ubuntu policy is for that sort of update in a released distribution version.

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Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote :

The policy for stable releases is that bugs should be fixed with a minimal patch.
Generally new upstream releases are not allowed unless they only fix a specific set of bugs reported against the package.

I can prepare a package with these changes but I need someone who is willing to test if it fixes the issue.

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HX_unbanned (linards-liepins) wrote :

I am ready to test your preped pkgs ... ;)

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HX_unbanned (linards-liepins) wrote :

Possible workaround:

Install / Update VirtualBox OSE 4.0.4 using this PPA: ://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/virt

tags: added: workaround
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