This is likely a duplicate of issue 783078, which Michael marked as "Fixed" in issue 781163.

I don't really think this is the same issue. It's not the new tab UI, so the logo would not be shown. The other issue was a rendering bug with the logo.

What I'm seeing here seems like a failure of the whole sheet contents to show. In half-height on top of a tab we should really be seeing both tiles and an article card.

Kingston, without a repro it will be very hard to do anything about this. Could you maybe own this issue until you find a clearer repro?

Kingston, these are the repro steps for the blank half sheet stemming from the NTP issue:

1. Open new tab
2. Focus omnibox, search for something
3. Pull up Chrome Home

Can you please see if this reproduces the issue for you? I can reproduce 100% of the time using these steps.

Yep that's a 100% repro. That's probably what caused it. Welp - bumping up the priority.

Thanks for the steps! However, this still does not reproduce for me in the following configs:

Chrome Canary 64.0.3271.3
Nexus 6
Android 7.0.0

Chrome Canary 64.0.3271.3
Pixel 2 XL
Android 8.1.0

What config do you use to reproduce this issue?

Issue 783078 has been merged into this issue.

I can reproduce on 64.0.3271.3 on a Pixel running 8.0.0. I'm in the Chrome Home promo group (opted-in to Chrome Home) and it looks like destroying suggestions each time the sheet is closed is disabled (thumbnails don't reload and ChromeHomeSuggestionsMemoryReduction is marked as 
"Disabled"). I suspect suggestions not getting destroyed is necessary to reproduce.

All experiment groups:
AndroidInProductHelpDataSaverPreview-EnabledV2
AndroidInProductHelpDownloadHome-Enabled
AndroidSigninPromos-Control
AppBannerTriggering-CheckOnPageLoad
AsyncDns-Control
BackgroundTracing-AggressiveLowMemorySignalStats
BlockTabUnders-Enabled
CSSExternalScanner-Control
CheckerImaging-Control2
ChromeChannelCanary-Enabled
ChromeHome-Forced_Enabled_Dogfood
ChromeHomeBottomNavLabels-Enabled
ChromeHomeIPHExpand-Default
ChromeHomeIPHMenuHeader-Default
ChromeHomePersonalizedOmniboxSuggestions-Enabled
ChromeHomeSuggestionsMemoryReduction-Disabled
ChromeSmartSelection-Enabled
CompositorImageAnimation-CompositorImageAnimation
ConsumeGestureOnNavigation-Control
ContentSuggestionsDebugLog-Enabled_Dogfood
ContextualSearch-Default
CopylessPaste-Enabled
DataCompressionProxyHoldback-Disabled
DataCompressionProxyPromoVisibility-EnabledWithSnackbarPromo
DataReductionProxySiteBreakdown-Enabled_Dogfood
DecoupleTranslateLanguage-Experiment_Dogfood
ExternalDataUseObserver-Enabled_Dogfood
FixDocumentLeakInAutofillAgent-Default
HTTP2-Control
KeepAliveRendererForKeepaliveRequests-Enabled_10sec
LazyParseCSS-Control
LoadingWithMojo-Enabled_Launch
MidiManagerDynamicInstantiation-Enabled_Dogfood
NTPArticleSuggestions-Enabled62-ChromeReader_Dogfood
NTPBreakingNewsPush-Enabled_Dogfood
NTPCacheFCSRequests-Enabled
NTPFaviconsFromNewServer-Enabled512
NTPPopularSites-EnabledWithShortNames_Dogfood
NetAdaptiveProxyConnectionTimeout-Enabled_Dogfood
NetDelayableH2AndQuicRequests-EnabledHead3
NetworkQualityEstimator-Enabled_all_Dogfood
NoStatePrefetchValidation-SimpleLoad_R2
OmniboxBundledExperimentV1-Dev_Android_SpannableInlineAutocomplete_ForceEnabled_Dogfood
OmniboxPlaceholderExperiment-Default
OomIntervention-DetectionOnly_Control
PasswordGeneration-Enabled
PreviewsClientLoFi-Enabled_2G_Replace_Server_Placeholders_Dogfood
PropagateFaviconCacheHits-Control
QUIC-EnabledVersion41
ResourceLoadScheduler-Enabled_bg_limit_8_2
S13nSafeBrowsingParallelUrlCheck-CanaryDev_Enabled
SafeBrowsingAdSamplerTrigger-Control
SafeBrowsingUseLocalBlacklist-Use3PAPI
ServiceWorkerPaymentApps-Enabled
ServiceWorkerScriptStreaming-Control
SimpleCachePrefetchExperiment-Control
SpeculativePreconnectValidation-Learning2
SpeculativeResourcePrefetchingValidation-Default
SubresourceFilter-Control_Dogfood
SyncUSSAutocomplete-Enabled
SyncUSSTypedURL-Enabled
SyncUserLanguageDetectionEventsStability-DisableSyncUserLanguageDetectionEvents
TLS13Variant-ControlV2
TabManagementExperiment-Elderberry
ThrottleDelayable-Default
UMA-Population-Restrict-dogfood
UMA-Uniformity-Trial-10-Percent-group_02
UMA-Uniformity-Trial-100-Percent-group_01
UMA-Uniformity-Trial-20-Percent-group_04
UMA-Uniformity-Trial-50-Percent-group_01
UseHeuristicLanguageModel-Experiment_Dogfood
UseMojoAudioOutputStreamFactory-Control

Excellent, disabling the ChromeHomeDestroySuggestions feature indeed allows me to reproduce this. Thanks!

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/ab682e979171979b4b0f4644769bcd9d8c1c54c2

commit ab682e979171979b4b0f4644769bcd9d8c1c54c2
Author: Michael van Ouwerkerk <mvanouwerkerk@google.com>
Date: Wed Nov 22 20:46:03 2017

Ensure the RecyclerView is visible in the suggestions bottom sheet.

Bug:  786043 
Change-Id: I2a898da8095d001b0b5cd839810dbebc915cc3b3
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/785697
Reviewed-by: Bernhard Bauer <bauerb@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Michael van Ouwerkerk <mvanouwerkerk@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#518737}
[modify] https://crrev.com/ab682e979171979b4b0f4644769bcd9d8c1c54c2/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/suggestions/SuggestionsBottomSheetContent.java