emacs window a solid black block after a distribution upgrade

[Peter Flynn]

On 22/01/2023 15:11, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So I gathered more command line data.
> 
> Of the software that is not displaying things properly, Firefox and 
> chromium produced command line info when invoked, emacs did not.

Did you try running Emacs with emacs -Q to bypass all startup files like 
.emacs?

> Here is what I gathered:
> Bug reporting info, 22nd January, 3pm (UK time)
> 
> Hardware info:
> PC: Dell Inspiron 530s
> Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6550  @ 2.33GHz
> RAM : 4GiB (already tested with memtest86+)

That should be solid enough.

> This was the command line info when running Firefox:-
> 
> $ firefox
> update.go:85: cannot change mount namespace according to change mount 
> (/var/lib/snapd/hostfs/usr/share/gimp/2.0/help 

> $ chromium
> update.go:85: cannot change mount namespace according to change mount 
> (/var/lib/snapd/hostfs/usr/share/gimp/2.0/help 

Trash snap and install from .debs would be my first reaction.

Peter