Ubuntu
xorg-server package

  1. Bug #532047
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 532047

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TJ (tj) wrote :

I've discovered that an obscure interaction between plymouth graphical boot splash and X, when plymouth falls back to text mode, is the cause of this strange behaviour.

A temporary workaround is to disable plymouth-splash:

sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth-splash.conf /etc/init/plymouth-splash.conf.disabled