text white not readable after selecting

[Dan Cooper]

Hello,
I ran the subiquity installer with 22.04 Server on a Dell Optiplex 945 with Intel 945G.
Some text fields and option fields like "Close" have the same color as their background when I select them.
It only affect the blue/yellow subiquity version for legacy graphics, it does not affect the normal version in dark red that is run when I boot the same ISO in VBox.

Either the text color or the background should be changed to make it readable.

kind regards

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

Huh that's strange, it's like the attempts we make to set the colours on the console aren't working properly. Can you drop to a subshell, apt install colortest and run "colortest-8"? I guess this isn't a perfect test because the color modifications are undone when we start a subshell but it's somewhere to start.

[Dan Cooper (pcfan1234)]

This is the output of colortest.

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

Yeah that's some interesting interpretation of the colours. I wonder what's going on! Not sure I'm prepared to call this a subiquity bug though. Subiquity does have a black and white mode but for reasons I forget we only expose that when running on the serial console. I guess it would make sense to let users choose that always.

[Dan Cooper (pcfan1234)]

Am Mon, 04 Jul 2022 22:56:04 -0000
schrieb Michael Hudson-Doyle <email address hidden>:

> Yeah that's some interesting interpretation of the colours. I wonder
> what's going on! Not sure I'm prepared to call this a subiquity bug
> though. Subiquity does have a black and white mode but for reasons I
> forget we only expose that when running on the serial console. I guess
> it would make sense to let users choose that always.

Ok, from which packet does that behavior come?
Is it possible to move that bug report?

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

Yes but honestly I have no idea what is going wrong, I've never heard of anything like this before. It could be a hardware issue? That looks like a CRT so presumably it's fairly old? But like I said, no real idea.

[Dan Cooper (pcfan1234)]

Am Wed, 06 Jul 2022 01:59:33 -0000
schrieb Michael Hudson-Doyle <email address hidden>:

> Yes but honestly I have no idea what is going wrong, I've never heard
> of anything like this before. It could be a hardware issue? That
> looks like a CRT so presumably it's fairly old? But like I said, no
> real idea.

It is a CRT, but it works fine. I think it is a problem with the color
subiquity chooses.
Is there any way to find out which color is being used for the text and
the background?
I assume they are the same.