#3372 NORM First D: White page in journal instead of item

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#3372: White page in journal instead of item
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  Reporter:  philipmac  |       Owner:  philipmac             
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  distro     |     Version:                        
Resolution:             |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0          |  
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Comment(by tomeu):

 Replying to [comment:32 kimquirk]:
 > I believe this problem is the same as the one that we saw in testing...
 for builds around the 580-590, if the journal did not know how to read
 items in the journal (especially when trying to restart a tamtam activity
 since tamtam changed dramatically); then the journal would just show a
 white page; no back button, nothing.

 Yeah, but then we would get an exception in the logs (we don't).

 > In build 608 (approx), this was fixed so that if the journal doesn't
 know how to read an old item, it will show the back button; not a white
 page.

 This fix didn't go into any build because was triaged for FRS. This is the
 ticket: #3572.

 Would be fairly easy to apply on the Trial-3 branch. This is the patch:

 http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=journal-
 activity;a=commit;h=250087315c41b195dff0660fea2d52de28e44f6d

 > If you upgrade with a clean install, there are no items that the journal
 doesn't understand so it will 'fix' the symptoms.

 Philipmac's comments suggest to me that this is some kind of redraw
 problem. Some fixes for the X server/driver went in recent builds and also
 Marco fixed some related issues in the Journal side.

 > IF this is the bug, then it is fixed and closed in 608+. Assigning it
 back to Phillip to check.

 Yeah, please check again with the latest build.

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