[Bug 1796822] Re: Desktop live cd boots corrupted screen in Virtualbox on Bionic

[Daniel van Vugt]

FYI, similar skewed stride bugs on:

radeon: bug 1799103
Huawei rack servers: bug 1780076

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Title:
  Desktop live cd boots corrupted screen in Virtualbox on Bionic

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in initramfs-tools source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  On a Bionic host running the standard archive version of Virtualbox
  and the daily ISO of Cosmic, the live session starts with a corrupted
  graphical display, as can be seen here:

  https://imgur.com/a/rkTId4S

  (also attached)

  Switching VTs to 2 and back to 1 clears the display and things work
  again.

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