Bug#496844: gdmflexiserver: new gdm screen with unreadable font
Eddy Petrișor
eddy.petrisor at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 22:14:50 UTC 2008
Subject: gdmflexiserver: new gdm screen with unreadable font
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.7-1
Severity: serious
Justification: unusable gdm session; breaks existing one
Hello,
I tried today to log again on another console and I used the
gdmflexiserver menu entry to get to a new gdm screen, but I wasn't able
to use it since the fonts were garbled and I couldn't read anything on
he screen.
What's more weird is that, later, when swicthing to the VT that
contained at some point the broken gdm screen, then back, it happens
that the fonts in the original VT (vt7) get garbled, but they can be
restored if I switch to any getty console then back. I.e. ctrl+alt+F8,
ctrl+al+F7 breaks fonts, while ctrl+alt+F1, ctrl+alt+F7 will fix the
issue.
See attached images to see how the image/fonts are broken.
I am not sure if this is related, but when such a vt change occurs,
the layout information is reset to CAPS set and ctrl and caps are
switched (I use caps as ctrl, and the other way around). I will
submit a new bug about this, but I am not sure which is the proper
package.
Please ask any information you might need.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii gksu 2.0.0-5 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session [x-se 2.22.3-1 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-t 2.22.3-2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 1:2.4.43-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpam-modules 1.0.1-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii librsvg2-2 2.22.2-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii librsvg2-common 2.22.2-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-2 SELinux shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-15 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-3 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1 GNOME XML library
ii lsb-base 3.2-19 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window- 1:2.22.0-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii tilda [x-terminal-e 0.09.6-1 terminal emulator with first perso
ii twm [x-window-manag 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager
ii xterm [x-terminal-e 235-1 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii gdm-themes 0.6 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn xserver-xephyr | xnest <none> (no description available)
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+15 the X.Org X server
ii zenity 2.22.1-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
Versions of packages gdm suggests:
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.22.3-1 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii locales 2.7-13 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii uswsusp 0.7-1.2 tools to use userspace software su
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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