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Err and err and err but less and less and less

Ubuntu fonts problem after reboot

My screen fonts under Ubuntu are occasionally completely screwed up. They show up in blue with overstrikes:

ubuntu-font
I think this happens when I reboot my machine without a second monitor being attached to it, which it usually has. I suppose X.org gets confused when it cannot find a monitor that used to be there.

To solve this problem you must reconfigure X.org. Just enter the following and log out and in again to your X session:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xorg

Ubuntu fonts problem after reboot
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