raring daily: background & lightdm look as if they are in 8bit greyscale mode

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

I am using virt-manager / KVM.

The wallpaper is grey square boxes, instead of orange&purple mish-mash.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.8.4+bzr3412-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.328
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 19.517347] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:04.0: >setting latency timer to 64
 [ 20.637021] init: udev-fallback-graphics main process (2141) terminated with status 1
 [ 28.600013] hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead.
Date: Tue Nov 13 09:51:16 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: raring
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Cirrus Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device [1af4:1100]
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20121113)
Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Bochs Bochs
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/01/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Bochs
dmi.bios.version: Bochs
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Bochs
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnBochs:bvrBochs:bd01/01/2007:svnBochs:pnBochs:pvr:cvnBochs:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Bochs
dmi.sys.vendor: Bochs
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4+bzr3412-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3
xserver.bootTime: Tue Nov 13 09:44:11 2012
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
 input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard KEYBOARD, id 7
 input ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse MOUSE, id 8
xserver.errors:
 open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
 open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:

xserver.version: 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, can you add your xsession-errors to the bug?

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1078226

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue happen in kvm and not virtualbox, seems like a kvm/video driver issue somewhat

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

Video corruption also appears when installing raring onto a CentOS 6.3 KVM system.

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

reference #8
No, it is a ubuntu Raring Vs KVM issue, not the other way round :) KVM is part of the kernel, it is also part of cloud, guestfish which is a tool for KVM also will not run under quantal (there is new stuff being applied for raring). Raring KVM cannot run 'raring' without the video issue. KVM.... something is very broken in raring, not the other way round.
I'm NOT 100% sure if https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1088692 is a true duplicate of this bug, as there is no section that has stated the reason for it to fail.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is old and Ubuntu changed quite a lot since, there has also been no activity here nor similar reports. Closing since we believe the issue as described is deprecated but feel free to file a new report if you still have problems in recent Ubuntu versions.