XKeepsCrashing spews UTF-8 on non-UTF-8 terminal
Bug #56024 reported by
Paul Sladen
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #3498: Curses box uses wrong characters when X cannot start.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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console-setup (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gdm (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
When X is failing to start, gdm transfers control to:
/etc/
which then displays helpful dialogues on a text-termainl. The box-drawing output used by '/bin/usr/fmt' spews UTF-8 output onto a terminal that is not running in UTF-8 mode, causing ugliness that wraps around the right-hand-side of the console and causes corruption.
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Thank you for reporting this bug. Is this on edgy or dapper? Is it the GDM thats crashing or X? Can you please attach any log in /var/crash/ (if on edgy) and on either can you please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files.