I made some more testing. It seems that there is something wrong with usplash which results in fonts not being displayed in X.
I started my Ubuntu notebook into recovery mode and from there I changed the runlevel. After doing this I was able to work as usual. So I created a new entry in menu.lst without splash in the kernel line. kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=<uuid> ro instead of kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=<uuid> ro quiet splash -- xorg 7.3 no font https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173920 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs