All or most words on the screen turn white or dark making things unreadable

[Ryan Porter]

Seemingly randomly, the text on my screen (in firefox or any other program) will turn the same color as its background. This renders the programs affected useless because they're unreadable. However, after a little while, the text will return to its proper color.

I am using Lubuntu 12.04.
lightdm version 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lightdm 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 13 11:13:39 2012
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-28 (107 days ago)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

do you still have the bug? if yes, please run 'apport-collect 1036324'

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