Just did some apt-get updates and upgrades and on the version now as below and
the issues disappeared.
The Grub screen is back to normal now with the small font. Issue can be closed.
Linux H3U1 4.13.0-37-lowlatency #42-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 7
15:30:40 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Public bug reported:
When Ubuntu boots Grub shows the purple small characters based screen is drawn
very slowly from top to bottom almost line by line. After that the Grub menu
writes over it in black and white characters. This started to happen just
recently. Keyboard selection of which item
This happened to me after booting up on Sep 10 2019 after Ubuntu ran
software updater on Sep 9. 2019. I update whenever there is an update
reported by software updater. Tried to restart several times with the
same result. System went to text mode and stuck at "starting bpfilter"
every time.
Ubuntu 19.04
Updates set "for any new version"
Software updates: Just all the defaults
Linux 5.00.027-low latency #28-Ubuntu SMP PREMPT Aug 20 20:33:37 UTC 2019
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Additional drivers:
Nvidia GF119, GeForce 610.
NVidia driver meta-package from Nvidia driver-390. proprietary
