Offline upgrade from 15.3 caused Gnome Terminal failure

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I have upgraded two workstations from Leap 15.3 using recommended offline usb stick 15.4 DVD image and online repositories.
Both WS had separate /root and /home partitions.

This caused the basic Gnome Terminal not working on one ws. It gets a green background like the main screen, and it is not possible to see characters written, just black blocks.

When I try to drag the gnome-terminal window, it get graphical glitches or white shadow borders.
(To mentione also some other glitches occures like flickering sub menues in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird)

In comparision both xterm and konsole terminal seems to work ok. Tried various desktop session login without help.

If there is some profile for the Gnome Terminal, I could possibly try to copy in the version that works ok on the other workstation?

gnome-terminal --version 
# GNOME Terminal 3.42.2 using VTE 0.66.2 +BIDI +GNUTLS +ICU +SYSTEMD

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GNOME Shell 41.4

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Thx
Terje

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Let’s try to find out if everything you think is OK really is. Install inxi (if not already installed), run sudo inxi -U (to upgrade it to latest upstream version), then show us here by copy & pasting using code tags input/output from running inxi -GISaz in a working terminal.

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**#** inxi -GISaz 
**System:** 
  **Kernel:** 5.14.21-150400.24.11-default **arch:** x86_64 **bits:** 64 **compiler:** gcc 
    **v:** 7.5.0 **parameters:** BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.21-150400.24.11-default 
    root=UUID=5a4e8a21-d453-4590-a2a8-1e6247e31130 splash=silent 
    mitigations=auto quiet 
  **Console:** pty pts/0 **wm:** gnome-shell **DM:** **1:** GDM **v:** 41.3 **2:** SDDM 
    **note:** stopped **Distro:** openSUSE Leap 15.4 
**Graphics:** 
  **Device-1:** NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 730] **vendor:** ASUSTeK **driver:** nouveau 
    **v:** kernel **non-free:** 470.xx+ **status:** legacy-active (EOL~2023/24) 
    **arch:** Kepler **process:** TSMC 28nm **built:** 2012-18 **pcie:** **gen:** 2 **speed:** 5 GT/s 
    **lanes:** 8 **ports:** **active:** DVI-D-1 **empty:** HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 **bus-ID:** 01:00.0 
    **chip-ID:** 10de:1287 **class-ID:** 0300 
  **Device-2:** Microdia Camera **type:** USB **driver:** snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
    **bus-ID:** 1-11:3 **chip-ID:** 0c45:6340 **class-ID:** 0102 
  **Display:** **server:** X.org **v:** 1.20.3 **with:** Xwayland **v:** 21.1.4 
    **compositor:** gnome-shell **driver:** **X:** **loaded:** nouveau 
    **unloaded:** fbdev,modesetting,vesa **alternate:** nv,nvidia **gpu:** nouveau 
    **display-ID:** :0 **screens:** 1 
  **Screen-1:** 0 **s-res:** 2560x1440 **s-dpi:** 96 **s-size:** 677x381mm (26.65x15.00") 
    **s-diag:** 777mm (30.58") 
  **Monitor-1:** DVI-D-1 **mapped:** XWAYLAND0 **model:** Asus PB278 **serial:** <filter> 
    **built:** 2012 **res:** 2560x1440 **hz:** 60 **dpi:** 108 **gamma:** 1.2 
    **size:** 600x340mm (23.62x13.39") **diag:** 685mm (27") **ratio:** 16:9 **modes:** 
    **max:** 2560x1440 **min:** 720x400 
  **OpenGL:** **renderer:** NV106 **v:** 4.3 Mesa 21.2.4 **direct render:** Yes 
**Info:** 
  **Processes:** 271 **Uptime:** 0h 4m **wakeups:** 4 **Memory:** 62.76 GiB 
  **used:** 2.2 GiB (3.5%) **Init:** systemd **v:** 249 **target:** graphical (5) 
  **default:** graphical **tool:** systemctl **Compilers:** **gcc:** N/A **Packages:** N/A 
  **note:** see --pkg **flatpak:** 0 **Shell:** Bash (su) **v:** 4.4.23 **running-in:** konsole 
  **inxi:** 3.3.19

To mention I also have yet another Leap 15.4 (test installation before the main upgrade) and Tumbleweed in a triple boot setup on the same workstation.
Both these systems have gnome-terminal working with the normal white background.

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[QUOTE=terjejh;3144763]I
(To mentione also some other glitches occures like flickering sub menues in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird)
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Looks like selecting Gnome on X.org session at desktop login, fixes the flickering Mozilla FF and TB sub menues.
But the gnome terminal failure still remains.
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I read that you did the Upgrade using an off-line medium AND on-line repos (this combination is a bit confusing to me). In any case, did you do

zypper up

afterwards to get all patches/updates that were released after the building of the ISO?

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Online Repos step 6 below is recommended when an Internet connection is available:12.1.3 Upgrading with YaST

step 6. In case an Internet connection is available, you may now activate optional online repositories.

In any case, did you do

zypper up

afterwards to get all patches/updates that were released after the building of the ISO?

Yes, I do online updates checks on a daily basis with ‘zypper up’ (or if first ‘gnome package manager’, and I have also tried Yast2 Online update)

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I don’t see any trouble lurking in your inxi output, but I do have two troubleshooting suggestions:
]Try an Xorg session instead of Wayland]sudo zypper rm xorg-x11-driver-video xf86-video-nouveau, then restart X
Were #2 to cause any trouble, simply replace rm with in and repeat, logged in on a vtty (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2) if necessary. None of my PCs with NVidia graphics have either of those two packages installed. The modesetting DIX display driver that will be employed as a result uses a newer technology, and is not reverse-engineered as is the xf86-video-nouveau DDX.

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I have tested and troubleshooted more.
As already mentioned above, Gnome on X.org login has no flickering Mozilla FF and TB sub-menus, but does not affect the Gnome Terminal issue.

The Gnome terminal content window has not really a Green background - it is a transparent window with only top frame and side border. That is, the green is from the Gnome desktop green background. And if the terminal window is opened partly over another application window, i.e Thunderbird, TB’s white background is shining through within the terminal window.

Two other attempts:
Desktop logon as root, opens the Gnome Terminal window as normal with a white, working window.
Created a new test user and did a desktop logon. Gnome terminal opened fine also here.

Therefore I am pretty sure the issue is not my system upgrade installation.
It is something in my user’s or terminal environment (profile?) that has messed up and cause the gnome-terminal issue…

Again as I started, if I know what to possibly remove (rename) in my user’s environment, I could try that and see if it is automatic re-created after a re-logon and opening the Terminal.

Terje

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I’m not a Gnome user, so can only suggest a few possible trees in which to examine interesting filenames if man gnome-terminal doesn’t point you right to it:

  • ~/.config/
  • ~/.gnome/
  • ~/.local/
    *]~/gtk/