Corrupted consoles

[Nick B.]

Binary package hint: usplash

After the recent usplash update (0.5.41) all the tty consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]) are corrupted. I saw mentioned in another bug report that if X starts before Usplash terminates it can corrupt the consoles. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/348440/comments/10
It seems that's exactly what's happening as I never see Usplash end. It goes immediately from Usplash to Xsplash. I removed "splash" from grub and the problem went away.

Steps to reproduce
1. Boot up Karmic
2. Try switching to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6])

What should happen:
A console with a login prompt should be seen

What actually happens:
The consoles are corrupted

I've attached a picture of what it looks like when I switch to a console

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 10 00:23:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Inspiron 8200
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: usplash 0.5.41
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   3.3V 32-bit PC Card
 Socket 1:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-13-generic root=UUID=dba501e3-2e47-4caa-bace-0ef668f4e752 ro quiet
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.43-generic
SourcePackage: usplash
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
UsplashConf:
 # Usplash configuration file
 # These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1633): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1633): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1663): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1682): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
dmi.bios.date: 01/07/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: Inspiron 8200
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA11:bd01/07/2004:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnInspiron8200:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rnInspiron8200:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 8200
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

[josesuarez1983 (j-suarez-agapito)]

I get the same here. Running karmic with everything updated as of 12 October. I have been experiencing this bug since I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.31-13-generic.

Versions installed are as follows:

linux-image-2.6.31-13-generic 2.6.31-13.44
usplash 0.5.42
nvidia propietary driver v. 190.36 installed by hand (happened the same with vdpau ppa's version of the same driver)

As a side note, I must note that although the vts are corrupted, a user can login and operate as usual with the only problem that you will not see anything other than the corrupted image.