Binary package hint: notify-osd
Every time I login I get a notification that my laptop battery is broken. This bubble pops up before compiz is loaded (is my guess) and it results in displaying a black box around that bubble. The result can be seen in 'black box.png'. This occurs at every login.
A fix could be that notify-osd should wait for compiz to start (if compiz is set as the default window manager).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
[ 29.901986] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
[ 38.325014] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
[ 59.765280] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
[ 220.412311] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec
Date: Wed Feb 10 10:34:56 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
GtkTheme: Shiki-Dust
IconTheme: Humanity-Dark
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1737
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: notify-osd 0.9.25-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-12-generic root=UUID=197a87e1-dc57-4d39-86b3-502297911278 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=C
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.5+1ubuntu2
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.8.0~git20100207.1a45c2bc-0ubuntu0sarvatt3
libdrm2 2.4.17+git20100209.fdcde592-0ubuntu0sarvatt
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.10.0+git20100209.41784e15-0ubuntu0sarvatt
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20100205.b7ca1ab1-0ubuntu0sarvatt
SourcePackage: notify-osd
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686
WindowManager: compiz
dmi.bios.date: 11/25/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.name: 0P786H
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A08
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A08
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd11/25/2009:svnDellInc.:pnStudio1737:pvrA08:rvnDellInc.:rn0P786H:rvrA08:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA08:
dmi.product.name: Studio 1737
dmi.product.version: A08
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
A general approach to fix this is to make compiz (or any other compositing window-manager) always be the first process to start for a gnome-session. Shuffling the start-order of session-processes around sounds like a paper-cut to me.