[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Zamundaaa]

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--- Comment #17 from Zamundaaa  ---
*** Bug 476473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Graham Perrin]

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--- Comment #16 from Graham Perrin  ---
Thanks, people. 

(In reply to nyanpasu64 from comment #0)

> Operating System: Arch Linux

Not limited to Linux. 

(In reply to nyanpasu64 from comment #3)

>  … instead of the lock screen. … *sometimes* (not always) the 
> lock screen appeared … IIRC typing the password 
> didn't make the lock screen appear. …

As far as I can tell: whilst kscreenlocker is otherwise effective – visible,
for example, during split-seconds within
 – content that that should be
invisible is 'broken through' the lock by this bug. 

If symptoms recur: 

1. enter your passphrase (as if the lock screen is not interrupted by the
flickering)
2. enter your keyboard shortcut for KRunner
3. kwin_x11 --replace

I'll alert a relevant address @kde.org, and someone at NVIDIA.

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[ghoste]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

--- Comment #15 from ghoste  ---
(In reply to Tyler Harrison from comment #14)
> (In reply to ghoste from comment #11)
> > I had this issue with Plasma 5.25 and maybe 5.24, but I think it stopped
> > happening after upgrading to Plasma 5.26. I'm now running Plasma 5.27.2 and
> > was unable to reproduce it after disabling and re-enabling the compositor 10
> > times in X11. Using NVIDIA driver 525.89.02.
> 
> Unfortunately I am using Plasma 5.27.2 and was able to reproduce this
> problem (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469809).

Guess I didn't test it enough. I tried a couple dozens times before posting
that by launching and closing a game with gamemoderun disabling/enabling the
compositor, but I did it back to back without leaving the compositor off for
more than a couple minutes. I suppose there's more conditions that need to be
met before this bug is triggered than purely disabling/enabling the compositor.

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Tyler Harrison]

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--- Comment #14 from Tyler Harrison  ---
(In reply to ghoste from comment #11)
> I had this issue with Plasma 5.25 and maybe 5.24, but I think it stopped
> happening after upgrading to Plasma 5.26. I'm now running Plasma 5.27.2 and
> was unable to reproduce it after disabling and re-enabling the compositor 10
> times in X11. Using NVIDIA driver 525.89.02.

Unfortunately I am using Plasma 5.27.2 and was able to reproduce this problem
(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469809).

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Nate Graham]

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--- Comment #13 from Nate Graham  ---
*** Bug 469809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Kai Krakow]

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--- Comment #12 from Kai Krakow  ---
I can confirm this. A mostly reliable reproducer is starting a Steam Proton
game which has a launcher that detect DirectX capabilities, e.g. the Elite
Dangerous Launcher. Such launchers generate a full screen window for an blink
of an eye which disables the compositor and automatically enables it again (I'm
forcing composition off through a kwin rule which looks for client windows
named "(gamescope|steam_app_)", otherwise games stutter unpredictably in my
dual monitor setup and both my monitors drift apart with vsync over time (and
X11 always syncs all monitors in a single loop thus syncing to the slowest
monitor).

This tight disable/enable loop seems to be enough to initially trigger the bug
but it usually only occurs when the game ends and closes it's final window
(tho, not exclusively, it still may trigger the bug when the launcher starts).
The game itself is unaffected. Using shift+alt+F12 to disable compositing cures
the flipped and flickering desktop but only until I re-enable compositing. Only
restart kwin_x11 fixes it. After it happened once, it is very likely to be
triggered more easily, a full reboot is needed to get rid of the behavior for a
while.

Games that do not trigger tight enable/disable intervals for compositing seem
to be less likely trigger the bug.

"Force full composition pipeline" is enabled to fix tearing in multimonitor
setups. It may be part of the problem, I was never seeing that on my single
monitor setup (but this is at least 2 years ago).

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[ghoste]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

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--- Comment #11 from ghoste  ---
I had this issue with Plasma 5.25 and maybe 5.24, but I think it stopped
happening after upgrading to Plasma 5.26. I'm now running Plasma 5.27.2 and was
unable to reproduce it after disabling and re-enabling the compositor 10 times
in X11. Using NVIDIA driver 525.89.02.

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Lapineige]

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Daniel Neugebauer]

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--- Comment #10 from Daniel Neugebauer  ---
When I run X-Plane I use a wrapper script to disable and reenable compositing
via dbus for better rendering performance. Since installing X-Plane 12 in
September 2022 I noticed I also have a high chance to experience this issue
when the application exits and I repeat that several times via my wrapper
script (about once every 5 to 25 times, very sporadic). The issue is still
present with kwin and Plasma workspace 5.25.5.

The screen turns mostly black. The Konsole terminal window I use to run the
script gets duplicated and flipped vertically. Only the non-flipped copy has
window translucency applied (I can see the desktop background image). Contents
may or may not be completely visible. The image on screen is stable as long as
I don't move the mouse or interact with any windows. When moving the mouse
across the screen, parts (widgets?) of the windows currently hovered by the
mouse cursor appear shortly but flicker/disappear as the mouse get moved
further. The parent widget hierarchy seems to appear at random (partial window
repaints?). Other desktops (I use a total of 8) did not seem to be affected in
the corruption I encountered today (I don't remember if I checked that before).

Memtest86 has been run several times since I noticed these issues and
MemtestG80 (for VRAM) has also been executed two times so far without any
errors being detected. MCE log entries do not correlate to screen corruption.

I can confirm that disabling the compositor helps. Reenabling does not resolve
the issue, a restart is required to fix it.

The commands used to toggle the compositor from my script are:

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend
qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor resume

There are no entries in system logs (metalog, I don't use systemd) related to
kwin or otherwise correlating to the corruption.

Looking back at my package installation history since October (not sure if I
already encountered it in September as well), the problem has been observed
using:
- Gentoo Linux
- proprietary Nvidia drivers 515.65.01, 525.60.11 and 525.60.13
- X.org X11 server 21.1.4
- Mesa 22.1.7 and 22.2.3
- Qt 5.15.5 and 5.15.7
- kwin 5.25.5
- Plasma workspace 5.25.5

Hardware:
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 STRIX O8G Gaming, 8192 MB
GDDR5)
- Intel i7-4790K @ 4.0GHz (4 cores x 2 HT)
- 32 GB RAM

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Kott]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

--- Comment #9 from Kott  ---
I think it's worth to mention that my Qt engine is Kvantum. I switch back to
the Breeze and see no upside-down flipping for a while.

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Vladislav Rubtsov]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

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--- Comment #8 from Vladislav Rubtsov  ---
I have exactly the same issue as seen on the video attache by Awakening. This
is certainly a compositor problem as disabling compositor (Shift+Alt+F12) fixes
it.

This is extremely annoying as I haven't found a reliable way to fix this
(switching compositor on/off doesn't always help). It happens after wake up or
exiting a game or other fullscreen application that temporarily disables
compositing.

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5
Kernel Version: 5.18.19-3-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super/PCIe/SSE2 (driver 515.65.01)
Manufacturer: Motherboard by ZOTAC
Product Name: ZBOX-QCM7T3000/EN072080S/EN072070S/EN052060C
System Version: Rev.00

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Kott]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

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--- Comment #7 from Kott  ---
Got the same with my config. Mostly when the mpv is playing.

Kernel: 5.19.8-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.5 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220915

Device-1: NVIDIA TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] driver: nvidia v: 515.65.01
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa failed: nv
gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 2560x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 515.65.01

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Just Anig]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

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--- Comment #6 from Just Anig  ---
This happens every other time I switch virtual terminals, and it's extremely
aggravating since I have no idea how to make it go away.

PS: Have you tried kwinft?

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[nyanpasu64]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

--- Comment #5 from nyanpasu64  ---
Just woke from sleep again, and plasmashell hung shortly afterwards, with a
shadow of a notification visible (not the notification itself). I could move
the mouse and type into Discord, but not trigger Konsole or krunner to launch a
task manager and kill plasmashell.

I switched to a TTY, where htop indicated that several Electron apps and
plasmashell were burning a CPU core each, and specifically a non-main thread in
plasmashell was burning a CPU core. gdb showed that thread would not return
from syncSceneGraph.

Not sure if plasmashell and electron burning CPU were caused by resuming from
sleep, or switching to TTY. Nonetheless switching to TTY during normal
operation does not cause either Electron or plasmashell to burn a full CPU
core.

I didn't look into what Electron was doing wrong. I should've looked. However
there was no good way to check whether Electron started burning CPU before or
after switching to TTY, since I couldn't launch htop or SSH into my system
before switching to TTY.

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[nyanpasu64]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

--- Comment #4 from nyanpasu64  ---
I tried to take a trace-cmd sample using
https://github.com/mikesart/gpuvis/tree/master/sample and open it in gpuvis,
but I only got CPU information. I can share my traces if anyone is interested.

Interestingly killing plasmashell (not kwin_x11) stopped the flickering.

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[nyanpasu64]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

--- Comment #3 from nyanpasu64  ---
Just hit this bug again. When waking my computer, I got an upside-down
foobar2000 on a black screen instead of the lock screen. When my mouse cursor
moved in and out of the password text field, it changed to a text cursor, and
*sometimes* (not always) the lock screen appeared for around 1-2 frames in my
smartphone video recording (uploaded to https://youtu.be/90tbG_c3-cQ). The time
between two adjacent appearances of the lock screen was around 24, 22, or 17
frames (not exactly matching the caret flash rate). IIRC typing the password
didn't make the lock screen appear.

I checked my journal afterwards, and at the time I woke the machine, I saw
"kwin_x11[293413]: OpenGL vendor string:" and "BlurConfig::instance called
after the first use - ignoring", etc.. I restarted kwin, then tried sleeping
and waking the machine again (without the bug occurring) and saw the same
messages reappear in my journal, meaning they appear both with and without the
bug occurring. I suspect KWin randomly corrupts when trying to restart
compositing.

Running kwin_x11 under Valgrind and sleep-waking my system, I see a bunch of
uninitialized memory reads/syscalls, such as "Invalid read of size 16". All
have a stack trace for where they're allocated, but most lack a stack trace for
where they're read (just two hex addresses with no symbol names, and no path to
main()). There's no smoking gun, no obvious memory misuse, just a pile of
errors from random libraries (including /usr/lib/libGLX_nvidia.so.470.103.01)
which I don't understand. In any case I've posted the logs at
https://gist.github.com/nyanpasu64/db0518c4f08569a39acb810d936fcd01.

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Awakening]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450301

--- Comment #2 from Awakening  ---
Created attachment 146771
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=146771=edit
Video demonstrating the flickering

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[kwin] [Bug 450301] On KWin 5.24 X11 Nvidia, when reenabling compositing, windows begin flickering and flipping upside-down

[Awakening]

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--- Comment #1 from Awakening  ---
I'm one of those two people, ran into this twice so far, not sure what exactly
triggered it either, flickering presumably started after toggling compositing
back on (by leaving full screen in mpv, at least on one occasion, don't
remember the other), session uptime was in >12h territory.

I can briefly trigger the upside-down window in bottom-left corner on black
background by having mpv open, alt-tabbing (so the left-side panel with
thumbnails shows up), and cycling compositing. 
Doesn't send it into uncontrollable flickering though.
Which reminds me of bug 443341, might be relevant.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.16.7-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2
GPU driver version: 510.47.03

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