Binary package hint: plymouth
The "xubuntu" in the plymouth splash screen looks very bad. It has lighter gray patches that look almost like spider webs drawn in. This did start with the images on 2010-03-30. I am attaching a screen shot of the logo in VirtualBox. This is the same image distortion on a hardware system with a Riva128 video card, another with a NVidia 6200 video card, and VirtualBox. It affects all images.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
[ 101.043501] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 148.407491] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 148.608120] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Date: Tue Mar 30 19:41:49 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100329)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/xhostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
SourcePackage: plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH
This is what comes of trying to display a true-color logo on a 16-color framebuffer. That needs to be adjusted in the xubuntu artwork theme, it can't be fixed in plymouth.
(The plymouth package may need some adjustments to let the theme packages figure out the bit-depth of the renderer being used, but that's an issue that has to be resolved for all themes anyway.)