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affects /distros/ubuntu/xserver-xorg
NOTE: This bug report is about the fact that the dialogue about the
server failure is garbled.
When the system starts up, the X server starts and briefly shows a
garbled display: it looks like there is a mismatch between the display
data in the video memory and the video mode, so that there is a kind
of horizontally stripy garbled image in part of the screen.
Then shortly afterwards the X server terminates again and I go back
into text mode and get a dialogue box offering me various logfiles;
this dialogue box is itself semi-garbled:
The textual components are legible. But the dialogue border is
displayed as a sequence of bizarre accented characters. For example,
the box saying `The X server is now disabled ...' has, on the top
edge,
U' o" i^ ( U' o" C, )x26 U' o" e'
where U' is U-with-acute-accent, o" is o-with-umlaut, C, is
C-with-cedille, etc. This string is longer than the 80-column width
and causes cursor positioning errors.
This particular install is a clean dapper install from the released
i386 d-i CD, upgraded to edgy by editing sources.list and updated
every few days. Everything is up to date except that apt has held
back a bunch of python packages. I have to install with
debian-installer/framebuffer=false to avoid an incompatibility between
the framebuffer driver and my hardware.
Ian.
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** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Status: In Progress
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X server failure dialogue garbled (UTF-8 problem)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/54813
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