Graphics glitches after upgrade

[Crust]

After a recent dist-upgrade, my graphics is glitchy - especially when scrolling, things are not smooth and sometimes there is corruption of graphics.

1. I use kdenext.
2. from inxi -v3:

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Graphics:  Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.17.2 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@59.94hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.6.8 Direct Rendering: Yes

3. I am so confused on how to read logs as I have, unfortunately, not been able to keep up with systemd and its associated changes.

Apparently, the system is not updating Xorg.0.log anymore.

Running journalctl returns nothing  (I don't know why)

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$ journalctl
No journal files were found.
-- No entries --


My guess is that this is due to the acceleration used and potentially the composition used in kde.  In the past, I was able to check acceleration using Xorg.0.log.  I was also able to turn of all composition in kde with a single click, but I don't see this option anymore.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks for all the help and sorry for being so out-of-date on the latest and greatest in linux.

[Crust]

Shift-Alt-F12 disables compositing but it would be nice if someone could respond to my original email so that I can learn how to debug this issue.  (Teach a man how to fish.)

[gerd]

I experienced probably the same problems after a d-u few weeks ago but also with ivy-bridge graphics card

http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5788.msg47468#msg47468

I was alone with that problem, also didn't find similar reports via google. Workaround for me was to run the kernel i used before that d-u.


btw. you have run do journalctl as root

[Crust]

gerd,

Thanks for confirming that the problem exists.

I did run journalctl as root and get the same result:

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# journalctl
No journal files were found.
-- No entries --


[jure]

please have a look at http://manual.siduction.org/sys-admin-systemd#journalctl

[Crust]

jure,

Thanks.  I had read the manual.  Please note that journalctl doesn't work even as root.

I believe that the journal process is not running as:

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# systemctl status systemd-journald.service
Failed to get properties: No such interface ''


Can someone help me debug?

[Crust]

I have solved the journalctl issue.  Apparently something was wrong with systemd.  I re-installed systemd and things are working.