super tiny font and incorrect background

[Barry Warsaw]

After today's Quantal update, the login screen is unusable. After a reboot, I get what looks like it might be the normal login screen, and I get the bongos, but then almost immediately the screen turns into the old-style purple-and-orange background and all the fonts are super tiny. Although very small, I'm able to find the reboot button, but other than that I cannot log into the desktop.

This is running in a VMware Fusion 4.1 virtual machine, but everything worked before today's reboot. I am going to try rebooting one of my native machines to see if the same problem occurs.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. The background looks like the normal login screen, and there are menu items, ubuntu logo, and login box in the normal places, but just so small that they cannot be normal interacted with.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Seems fine on my Mac running natively with ATI hardware. Note that I do have 3d acceleration turned on for the VMware host. Maybe this is fallout from the X.org transition?

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

See also LP: #1039157

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

Hey there. Thanks for taking time reporting this bug. As you know, Quantal and Unity have changed much since when you reported this bug. Are you still experiencing the issue? If so, could you please open a new task using "ubuntu-bug unity-greeter"?

I'm closing this bug because it lacks all the useful information from apport.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

On Oct 06, 2012, at 09:20 AM, Andrea Corbellini wrote:

>Hey there. Thanks for taking time reporting this bug. As you know,
>Quantal and Unity have changed much since when you reported this bug.
>Are you still experiencing the issue?

Nope. Ultimately the problem was due to the graphics kernel module not being
loaded on boot. This has all been fixed now and everything's working just
fine. Thanks!