[ply-utils.c] ...ply_open_module:Could not load module "/lib/plymouth/renderers/x11.so" ... cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Philippe Lefevre]

While I was looking for a trouble with plymouth (5 dots progression nor fsck checkings are not displayed anymore at starting ubuntu since the upgrade from 10.04 LTS) I found these errors into the plymouth debug log file :
[ply-utils.c] ply_open_module:Could not load module "/lib/plymouth/renderers/x11.so": /lib/plymouth/renderers/x11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
...
[./plugin.c] load_driver:drmOpen failed^M
[ply-renderer.c] ply_renderer_open:could not open rendering device for plugin /lib/plymouth/renderers/drm.so

Looking for the missing file shows that they are well available :
root:~# ls -al /lib/plymouth/renderers
total 108
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 août 2 16:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 août 2 16:10 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40024 mai 17 00:12 drm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18984 mai 17 00:12 frame-buffer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18872 mai 17 00:12 vga16fb.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19000 mai 17 00:12 x11.so

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu31.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-51.77-generic 3.2.48
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-51-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 4 20:05:27 2013
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/phl.plymouth/phl_plymouth
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0644:0200 TEAC Corp. All-In-One Multi-Card Reader CA200/B/S
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:3016 Dell Computer Corp. Optical 5-Button Wheel Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
MachineType: Dell Inc Dimension E521
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-51-generic root=UUID=e181bf7f-440d-46e3-9334-1da672d29ac6 ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x1024-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap plymouth:debug
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-51-generic root=UUID=e181bf7f-440d-46e3-9334-1da672d29ac6 ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x1024-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap plymouth:debug
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-05-30 (66 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/02/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc
dmi.bios.version: 1.1.11
dmi.board.name: 0CT103
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc
dmi.board.version: A03
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc:bvr1.1.11:bd08/02/2007:svnDellInc:pnDimensionE521:pvr:rvnDellInc:rn0CT103:rvrA03:cvnDellInc:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dimension E521
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Is your /usr on a separate partition from / ?

It appears that sometime between lucid and precise, the libdrm2 package regressed, and is now installing its library to /usr/lib/$arch instead of to /lib (or /lib/$arch). This means that for any system with /usr on a separate partition, plymouth will fail to start up correctly at boot time. This is probably the explanation for the problem you're seeing.

The issues with the x11.so backend are ignorable. You're not running an X server, so it's not as though this backend would be selected anyway - you should probably just remove the plymouth-x11 binary package from your system, which is not installed by default.

[Philippe Lefevre (ph-l)]

Thanks for your answer Steve.

Sorry, /usr is on the same partition than / :

$ df -k
Sys. de fichiers 1K-blocs Utilisé Disponible Uti% Monté sur
/dev/sda5 96124904 50213412 41028540 56% /
udev 1979492 4 1979488 1% /dev
tmpfs 809836 972 808864 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 2024584 216 2024368 1% /run/shm
/dev/mapper/data2vg-videolv 104031520 78035372 20753268 79% /video
/dev/mapper/datavg-optlv 15481840 7913832 6781576 54% /opt
/dev/mapper/data2vg-svglv 72822088 1403816 67748256 3%
/Sauvegardes
/dev/mapper/datavg-baselv 5039616 430276 4353340 9% /bases
/dev/mapper/data2vg-photoslv 46814192 36375760 8079136 82% /photos
/dev/mapper/datavg-wwwlv 10321208 2057872 7739048 22% /www
/dev/mapper/datavg-qemulv 5039616 3778172 1005444 79% /qemu
/dev/mapper/data2vg-graveurlv 15481840 5293984 9401424 37% /graveur
/dev/mapper/datavg-vboxlv 27754364 15449564 10894960 59% /vbox
/dev/mapper/data2vg-userslv 15481840 8245632 6449808 57% /users

$ ls -al /
total 200
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 juil. 29 17:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 juil. 29 17:02 ..
....
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 oct. 14 2012 users
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 août 1 00:27 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 août 4 22:38 var
....

$ ls -al /usr
total 332
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 août 1 00:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 juil. 29 17:02 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 94208 août 2 10:35 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 mai 31 13:45 games
drwxr-xr-x 77 root root 20480 août 1 10:02 include
drwxr-xr-x 294 root root 114688 août 2 10:35 lib
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 40960 mai 30 18:03 lib32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 mai 30 11:44 lib64 -> lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 juin 2 15:11 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 juin 21 2008 local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 août 2 10:35 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 480 root root 20480 août 1 20:50 share
drwxrwsr-x 14 root src 4096 juil. 29 17:02 src
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 sept. 1 2010 X11R6

Ok, I'm going to remove plymouth-x11 package which is installed

Le 04/08/2013 23:53, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> Is your /usr on a separate partition from / ?
>
> It appears that sometime between lucid and precise, the libdrm2 package
> regressed, and is now installing its library to /usr/lib/$arch instead
> of to /lib (or /lib/$arch). This means that for any system with /usr on
> a separate partition, plymouth will fail to start up correctly at boot
> time. This is probably the explanation for the problem you're seeing.
>
> The issues with the x11.so backend are ignorable. You're not running an
> X server, so it's not as though this backend would be selected anyway -
> you should probably just remove the plymouth-x11 binary package from
> your system, which is not installed by default.
>
> ** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) => libdrm (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: libdrm (U...

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

It's not libdrm either, you are using fglrx and it's expected the drm backend wont be used..

DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/phl.plymouth/phl_plymouth
^ what is this...?

It may be related to this in your dmesg, so I'm going to reassign to fglrx, sorry to ping pong the bug around. Do you even get functional VT's after booting?
[ 42.709129] [fglrx:firegl_get_console_mode_info] *ERROR* Get Console Mode failed

[Philippe Lefevre (ph-l)]

Robert,

DefaultPlymouth is my own Plymouth theme built from the official ubuntu-logo theme and a slightly modified to use the picture Precise_Pangolin_by_Vlad_Gerasimov.jpg converted to a png file.

/lib/plymouth/themes$ ls -al
total 2488
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 mars 18 23:02 password_field16.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1078 mars 18 23:02 password_field.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 210 août 3 20:56 phl_plymouth
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35928 août 3 16:50 phl_plymouth.script
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1276417 août 1 15:40 Precise_Pangolin.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 mars 18 23:02 progress_dot_off16.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 421 mars 18 23:02 progress_dot_off.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174 mars 18 23:02 progress_dot_on16.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 395 mars 18 23:02 progress_dot_on.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 892 mars 18 23:02 ubuntu_logo16.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6431 mars 18 23:02 ubuntu_logo.png

Please find attached phl_plymouth.script and phl_plymouth

Regarding fglrx, I use a proprietary package from ATI as I need to use accelerated 3D which is not fully working with the open-source one unfortunately. (I built and installed a deb package from ATI fglrx_12.104)

Don't worry about ping-pong. There is no problem at all: it is perfectly understandable with such a number of interacts ;)
In any case, thanks again for your time and help guys, I appreciate.

[Philippe Lefevre (ph-l)]

phl_plymouth.script script is modified to add lines #169 to 176

 169 #----------------------------------------- Ajout PHL ---------------------------
 170 screen_width = Window.GetWidth();
 171 screen_height = Window.GetHeight();
 172 wallpaper_image = Image("Precise_Pangolin.png");
 173 resized_wallpaper_image = wallpaper_image.Scale(screen_width,screen_height);
 174 wallpaper_sprite = Sprite(resized_wallpaper_image);
 175 wallpaper_sprite.SetZ(-10000);
 176 #----------------------------------------- Fin ajout ---------------------------

[Philippe Lefevre (ph-l)]

My initial trouble is now resolved but this message is still displayed into /var/log/plymouth-debug.log thought, all seems to be fine with fglrx and there no problem whilt gaming.
I wonder if this message indicate that there is a real trouble or if it just display a warning for files not found.

Here an extract of the log:

[main.c] add_default_displays_and_keyboard:adding default displays and keyboard
[ply-utils.c] ply_open_module:Could not load module "/lib/plymouth/renderers/x11.so": /lib/plymouth/renderers/x11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[./plugin.c] create_backend:creating renderer backend for device /dev/dri/card0
[./plugin.c] load_driver:Attempting to load driver '(null)'
[./plugin.c] load_driver:drmOpen failed
[ply-renderer.c] ply_renderer_open:could not open rendering device for plugin /lib/plymouth/renderers/drm.so
[./plugin.c] create_backend:creating renderer backend for device /dev/fb0