Could you please try the following to see if it exhibits the same problem? You may want to run 'sudo setupcon' afterwards to ensure that the console is in a sane state again.
zcat /etc/console-setup/Lat15-VGA16.psf.gz > Lat15-VGA16.psf && psfstriptable Lat15-VGA16.psf > Lat15-VGA16-stripped.psf && sudo consolechars -v --tty=/dev/tty1 -f Lat15-VGA16-stripped.psf This will help me narrow down which ioctl confuses X. -- Clobbered X screen state during installation https://launchpad.net/bugs/73955 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs