[Quantal] Plymouth broken for NVidia graphics with proprietary drivers

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Hi,

I've seen this happen on 3 different machines with 3 different NVidia graphics cards, so I confirm this immediately.

Somewhere during the updates between Quantal Beta 1 and Beta 2, plymouth graphics boot got broken for all machines with NVidia cards, using proprietary NVidia drivers.

As of today 2012/10/15, this is not fixed and these machines boot in text mode until the GUI starts.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: plymouth 0.8.4-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Mon Oct 15 18:04:31 2012
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/fade-in/fade-in.plymouth
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MachineType: TOSHIBA SATELLITE L735
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/UBUNTU/@boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=/dev/mapper/VG1-BTR_POOL ro rootflags=subvol=UBUNTU/@ rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.blacklist=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor quiet splash
ProcFB:

ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/UBUNTU/@boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=/dev/mapper/VG1-BTR_POOL ro rootflags=subvol=UBUNTU/@ rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.blacklist=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor quiet splash
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-28 (48 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/26/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: 2.50
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Base Board Product Name
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.board.version: Base Board Version
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: OEM Chassis Manufacturer
dmi.chassis.version: OEM Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvr2.50:bd06/26/2012:svnTOSHIBA:pnSATELLITEL735:pvrPSK0CE-00900LFR:rvnIntelCorp.:rnBaseBoardProductName:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnOEMChassisManufacturer:ct10:cvrOEMChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: SATELLITE L735
dmi.product.version: PSK0CE-00900LFR
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This is not a bug in plymouth. The package for the nvidia binary drivers has blacklisted the framebuffers, without which plymouth can't work.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.