ubiquity in xubuntu images garbles some text at 800x600

[Steve Beattie]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When running ubiquity in an 800x600 display from the Xubuntu desktop cd either in the live environment or from selecting install at the syslinux prompt, the first screen contains garbled text (see attached screenshot). Resizing the window larger in the live environment does not cause the text to be reflowed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 5 19:05:00 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100305)
Package: ubiquity 2.1.31
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Here's a screenshot from selecting to install from the syslinux boot prompt with the same garbled text.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation.

I can confirm this issue using VirtualBox. While I do not see this issue when installing on my hardware systems, they are also using a 17-inch LCD monitor. Even expanding the installer to maximize does not allow the text to be read. It appears to be fixed in place once it is printed on the screen.

Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Since this issue will be present for any user using a small netbook, I am marking it high importance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.2.0

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ubiquity (2.2.0) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Removed the alpha warning. Welcome to Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1.
  * Align labels to the top on the language page (LP: #532876).
  * The run method of GTK+ dialogs enters a nested main loop. However,
    the user can click the quit button (which calls the quit dialog's
    run method) before the page is ready. Once the page is actually ready,
    another main loop is entered, and thus if the user hits the quit button
    on the quit dialog at this point, nothing will happen. Work around this
    by managing the state of the quit dialog in the frontend.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * GTK frontend:
    - Fix label retranslation when clicking on update link (LP: #531864).
  * KDE frontend:
    - Use manual xauth code and sudo rather than kdesudo; the latter does
      not permit passing through environment variables other than
      one-by-one, which broke various things (LP: #526456, #538142).
    - Construct the default hostname from the text in the username box, not
      from the previous text in the hostname box (LP: #527704).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup
    1.34ubuntu11, grub-installer 1.49ubuntu7, partman-base 138ubuntu3,
    partman-target 64ubuntu7.

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Ensure progressDialog is kept updated (LP: #538147)
  * Set Qt style accelarators on question dialogue
  * Do OEM config UI setup after translate_widgets, (LP: #539176)
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:37:55 +0000