xorg 7.3 no font

[Tom Winterhalder]

I'm running Hardy since Gutsy was finally released. So far there was no problem because I really carefully upgraded.

Before upgrading essential packages on my base installation I upgrade them in a virtual machine to see if everything is working fine.

Now I did the same again and run an upgrade again on my system. Since this upgrade I can't see any fonts when starting X.

On the console fonts are displayed as usual. As soon as I start with the logon manager no fonts and images are shown.
Logging into my system I can't see the username. I can see a cursor moving when I type, but it seems, that I'm using a white font on white background. After logging in, I can click on menus but cant see any fonts or images.

My transparent Eterm, which I integrated into my desktop shows the fonts, but when starting a gnome-terminal from within an Eterm the gnome-terminal becomes useless (no font visible).

Is there anything I missed with my last upgrade? And even more important is there a way to get the fonts back?

Reconfiguring X didn't solved the problem.

In the log files I can't find anything about missing fonts...

[Tom Winterhalder (thwint)]

Attached is a part of the term.log showing which packages have been installed today

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in xorg.

[Tom Winterhalder (thwint)]

I made some more testing. It seems that there is something wrong with usplash which results in fonts not being displayed in X.

I started my Ubuntu notebook into recovery mode and from there I changed the runlevel. After doing this I was able to work as usual.

So I created a new entry in menu.lst without splash in the kernel line.

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=<uuid> ro
instead of
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=<uuid> ro quiet splash

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

What video driver are you using? I strongly suspect that it's a bug in that which is triggered by usplash, rather than being a usplash bug.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

new ->incompete

Please tell us which video driver you are using.

[Tom Winterhalder (thwint)]

At this time I used the intel driver. Currently I'm using FBDev.
After changing to the default ubuntu splash the problem disappeared.

Only when using a customized usplash theme I don't have any visible fonts in xorg.

As it is a long time ago I don't know, if the problem still persists. I think I have to install a customized splash theme again.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Tom Winterhalder : That's interesting. Can you provide a usplash theme that cause this problem?

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!