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friendly-recovery package

Recovery mode is displayed in unreadable font

Bug #782872 reported by Terry Dow on 2011-05-15

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Also other programs that use system font are unreadable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Sat May 14 22:58:02 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-05-10 08:55:14.848249
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller [8086:7125] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device [0e11:b191]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 04e8:665c Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05d8:4005 Ultima Electronics Corp. MEM48U
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c505 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse+Keyboard Receiver
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 050f:0003 KC Technology, Inc. KC82C160S Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Compaq Deskpro EP Series
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=c6a0c08a-1dd7-4374-ad09-97e84b79a078 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-10 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/15/2000
dmi.bios.vendor: Compaq
dmi.bios.version: 686J1 v2.10
dmi.board.name: 061Ch
dmi.board.vendor: Compaq
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Munchies20091026
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Compaq
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnCompaq:bvr686J1v2.10:bd03/15/2000:svnCompaq:pnDeskproEPSeries:pvr:rvnCompaq:rn061Ch:rvr:cvnCompaq:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Deskpro EP Series
dmi.sys.vendor: Compaq
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

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lp:ubuntu/oneiric/friendly-recovery

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Terry Dow (terrydowcc) wrote on 2011-05-15:

Picture of recovery mode menu (via my cell phone) Edit (277.9 KiB, image/jpeg)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (33.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (1.4 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (36.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (32.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (33.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (33.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (477 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (92.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (190.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (668 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (45.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (46.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (4.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
locale.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (513 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
peripherals.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xinput.txt Edit (682 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (54.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Terry Dow (terrydowcc) wrote on 2011-05-15:

Chromium-bsu screenshot Edit (354.3 KiB, image/png)

Picture of other affected software (chromium-bsu)

Shimi Chen (shimi-chen) on 2011-06-08

affects:

ubuntu → friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)

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Terry Dow (terrydowcc) wrote on 2011-06-12:

Found fix for my problem:

From terminal: two things

edit /etc/default/console-setup

Code:
sudo gedit /etc/default/console-setup
AND reconfigure console-setup

Code:
sudo dpkg -reconfigure console-setup
Note to get the recovery mode fixed AFTER doing the above:

1. boot into recovery mode
2. wait until its finished
3. press the down arrow until no movement on your screen
4. enter
Code:
dpkg -reconfigure console-setup
Yes, I know you can't read what you typed.
5. hit ENTER
6. enter
Code:
reboot
7. hit enter

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote on 2011-09-22:

It's not entirely clear to me what's the issue there.

friendly-recovery got some pretty big changes done in Oneiric, one being that friendly-recovery now starts a lot earlier in the boot sequence which very well could fix your problem.

Could your try Oneiric beta2 and see if the problem is fixed?

Changed in friendly-recovery (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-09-26:

This bug was fixed in the package friendly-recovery - 0.2.18

---------------
friendly-recovery (0.2.18) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Update upstart job
    - Replace tabs by spaces from last change (for consistency)
    - Start hostname and console-setup from pre-start (LP: #524605, LP: #782872)
-- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:29:19 -0400

Changed in friendly-recovery (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Fix Released

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