Blank screen with a white bar on boot up

[Mahesh Asolkar]

After the updates from yesterday, my laptop with Jaunty Alpha 6 (+ latest updates) boots to a black screen with a white bar - no theme, just black screen with a white bar. The bar is at the location where the GDM screen usually has the text box for username/password entry. There is no cursor. If I click the mouse in it, nothing happens. When I start typing, the tty briefly appears, and the proper GDM login screen shows up.

There on, there is no issue.

[Michaël Vanderheeren (michael-vanderheeren)]

Please specify your graphics hardware. This could be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/346028

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

My graphics hardware is:

  VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)

Bug #346028 seems to be seems to be ATI (fglrx) related.

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

Must be the updates. I haven't seen this happen in the last 2-3 days.

[Michaël Vanderheeren (michael-vanderheeren)]

So it's not happening anymore?

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

That is correct. I gave it another couple days, but I haven't seen the problem recur.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

The usplash-theme-ubuntu package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.