Bug 36699

Rectangular regions of the screen become unpaintable (nothing redraws in that area) after displaying and dismissing a context menu.

The system has RV770 graphics on two heads using metacity (no compositing) and the r600g driver.

The rectangular regions are slightly larger dimensionally than the context menu that had triggered them.  When they pop up they show a snapshot of whatever had been displayed - snippets of web pages typically.  When I hover the mouse cursor over them, the cursor will change shape back to an arrow.  The region also blocks clicks if there is a hyperlink or button behind it.  Regular windows will not paint over these areas, however subsequent context menus will display over the top of them (and can be used normally).

This is an intermittent problem that occurs only once my system has been up for a period of a few days.  Once it starts, I'll generally see it multiple times in short successions.  I have particularly noticed it with the Chromium web browser, although that may just be because that's pretty much the only application I do a lot of right click context menu usage on.  I did notice an inverse effect when I did a context menu on a gnome-terminal window, it restored a portion of one of the regions (see screenshot).

About 50% of the time, I can switch desktops via ctrl-alt-arrow, and with sufficient switching it will sometimes disappear.  The other half of the time the region sticks around persistently until reboot.

If I switch to vt console, the screen is fine (black text console).  On switching back to X, the unrendered regions are back, but instead of displaying old graphics they are just grey.