white screen on boot right before login promt

Bug #1431846 reported by alx
14
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Power on or restart the machine.
Right before the login promt appears the screen goes white.
Then i have to click once anywhere on the screen .
After clicking , white screen dissapears and i can see the login promt and log normaly.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release: 15.04

apt-cache policy xorg
xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  Candidate: 1:7.7+7ubuntu3
  Version table:
     1:7.7+7ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Bug Report guidelines 3 & 4 : Obviusly the white screen shouldnt be there and i should be able to see the login promt.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-9.9-generic 3.19.1
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Mar 13 14:34:52 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-02 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-03-02 (10 days ago)

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alx (alexkourou) wrote :
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Pavel Roskin (proski) wrote :

It is a duplicate of the bug 1428884. The title of that bug not good - "Xorg crash", even though no crash is described. Anyway, the symptoms are the same.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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