Plymouth fails to display graphical splash screens on some machines, shows text mode dots animation instead.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Plymouth |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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plymouth (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Daniel van Vugt |
Bug Description
Plymouth often (sometimes) fails to display graphical splash screens on some machines, and shows text mode dots animation instead.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: plymouth 0.9.4git2019071
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.2.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
Date: Fri Aug 2 11:59:20 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-07-09 (23 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Alpha amd64 (20190709)
MachineType: LENOVO 20KGS4XY00
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /usr/share/
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/08/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: N23ET59W (1.34 )
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 20KGS4XY00
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: SDK0J40697 WIN
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
dmi.product.name: 20KGS4XY00
dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
summary: |
- Plymouth fails to display graphical splash screens on 2018 ThinkPads, + Plymouth fails to display graphical splash screens on some machines, shows text mode dots animation instead. |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: champagne focal |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in plymouth: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
It kind of looks like something is doing a VT switch during boot, changing to text mode, before the Plymouth animation starts. So the plymouth animation then uses the text theme.
It doesn't happen all the time though. Sometimes on a warm boot it works properly and I get a graphical animation.