bad PNGs, thunderbird and firefox

[brian]

On 08/21/2009 09:16 AM, brian wrote:
> thunderbird-3.0-2.6.b3.fc11.i586
> firefox-3.5.2-2.fc11.i586
>
> Suddenly, most of the icons in thunderbird and *some* images in ff are
> pretty messed up. They appear to be indexed to just 3 colours.
> Sometimes, it's predominantly neon green, other times purple or black.
> In TB, it's the ones that are highlighted, except for folders, which
> look fine. Any icon that's greyed out also appears normal. Also, the
> icons in the "write" window i'm typing now in are ok.
>
> In FF, there doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason, save for the fact
> they're all PNGs. I thought that it was background images only, but that
> doesn't appear to be the case. Nor are all PNGs screwed up.
>
> I recently installed an LCD display and so modified my xorg.conf. But
> this problem only just appeared so i doubt it's related. Is anyone else
> seeing something similar (it's *really* hard to miss).
>
> Otherwise, can anyone think of what I can check?
>
> Here's the latest from yum.log:
>
> Aug 19 16:40:07 Updated: gvfs-1.2.3-11.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:07 Updated: pciutils-libs-3.1.3-1.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:08 Updated: nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.3.99.3-2.11.4.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:09 Updated: nss-3.12.3.99.3-2.11.4.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:09 Updated: pciutils-3.1.3-1.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:10 Updated: libmtp-0.3.7-2.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:12 Updated: nss-tools-3.12.3.99.3-2.11.4.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:12 Updated: gvfs-smb-1.2.3-11.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:12 Updated: gvfs-obexftp-1.2.3-11.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:13 Updated: gvfs-archive-1.2.3-11.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:13 Updated: gvfs-gphoto2-1.2.3-11.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:13 Updated: gvfs-fuse-1.2.3-11.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:17 Updated: gdb-6.8.50.20090302-37.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:40:53 Updated: gnome-settings-daemon-2.26.1-8.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:41:06 Updated: 7:squid-3.0.STABLE18-1.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:41:06 Updated: m17n-db-1.5.5-1.fc11.noarch
> Aug 19 16:41:07 Updated: kernel-firmware-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.noarch
> Aug 19 16:41:08 Updated: pciutils-devel-3.1.3-1.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:41:10 Updated: nss-devel-3.12.3.99.3-2.11.4.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:41:15 Updated: setroubleshoot-plugins-2.0.18-5.fc11.noarch
> Aug 19 16:41:19 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:41:47 Installed: kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:41:47 Updated: systemtap-runtime-0.9.9-3.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:41:52 Updated: systemtap-0.9.9-3.fc11.i586
> Aug 19 16:41:53 Updated: m17n-lib-1.5.5-1.fc11.i586
>

Correction: some JPEGs are also displayed like this in FF.