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Due to bug 304955, my screen resolution was set to something my monitor
couldn't handle. To address this, I hit CTRL-ALT-Backspace to kill my X
session. When I tried to log back in, the resolution changed, and the
monitor displayed its "out of range" message. I killed the session
again, and logged in under a "failsafe" session, which did the same
thing. However, the terminal-only session did *not* change the
resolution, and opened up a perfectly usable xterm. There was no way to
fix the problem with the tools that created it; I eventually had to
delete ~/.config/monitors.xml by hand to make my account usable again.
What I expected: I expected that the failsafe login would use the known-
good resolution used for the login screen and the terminal-only session,
which would let me open up the Screen Resolution applet, and change it
back to something my monitor could handle.
What happened: Logging in used the resolution stored in
~/.config/monitors.xml, making that session just as unusable as the
regular one.
I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid; I don't know which package to file this
against, but I'm quite willing to provide whatever information might be
helpful.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Failsafe login doesn't use failsafe resolution.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/305604
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