I have on Feisty Fawn Herd 5 live CD, after a failed X start a similar problem. The text mode dialog border is garbled. ("Failed to start the X serve...") The left and and right border should be a vertical line, like "|" , but it is 3 characters, similar to "ÉlX" (the second one is a small ell I think; the X also has a vertical line like "|" through it;)
Looks like an UTF-8 related encoding mismatch. -- X server failure dialogue garbled (UTF-8 problem) https://launchpad.net/bugs/54813 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs