On 22 September 2017 at 18:04, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote: > On my lab systems, the automatic updates were failing because of the > problems with ipod libraries from EPEL being in the way. It turns out > that was a good thing, because when I "fixed" it, a massive set of > packages was updated, including the new gtk3. > > These packages are the ones causing problems, I think. > > gtk3-3.22.10-4.el7.x86_64 > gtk3-devel-3.22.10-4.el7.x86_64 > > In the release notes, there is mention of the "giant icon" problem and > how to fix that. We understand that part. > > The bad problem I see now is that Emacs and Chromium-browser, which > rely on gtk3 don't work properly anymore. In Emacs, the symptom is > that the ribbon of buttons under the pull down menu will no longer > show. In Chromium, the buttons and other widget things on the top > are an ugly yellow distortion. > > I've recompiled the Emacs that comes with EL7, as well as 24.5, and > the Emacs behaves the same way, no buttons show. The buttons are > invisible, but still there. If you click in there, you can get lucky. > > Do you see it too in Emacs? I checked with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system and the problem occurs in that also. I have opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1495264 with your data included since you did all the work. -- Stephen J Smoogen.