Choosing check disc for defects in Ubuntu GNOME Trusty displays no readable text

[Erick Brunzell]

I've been testing Ubuntu GNOME Alpha 1 candidates and rather than displaying text you just see a long string of rectangles.

I would normally not report a problem like this at "alpha" stage but I think it may be loosely related to bug #1260473 and bug #1262824 in that it may be gtk related.

You can however display the text of the test by pressing Esc if you wait until the test is in progress.

I'll follow up ASAP with some pictures.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: casper 1.336ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Dec 19 14:19:26 2013
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20131219)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: casper
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.casper.conf: 2013-12-19T12:59:36.959630

[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/1262841

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

This is what the initial screen looks like.

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

If you wait about one minute and press esc you will see this.

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

And if you then wait a few more minutes the test completes and displays the final results.

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

In case it's helpful this also effects Xubuntu, but the Edubuntu Alpha 1 images are OK.

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

This appears to be fixed in Ubuntu GNOME 20140121.1 amd64 but I'll follow up later.

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

Certainly working OK in Ubuntu GNOME Trusty Beta 1 so I marked it fix released.