Initial X session aborts "EnterVT failed for screen 0"

[Chase Douglas]

Binary package hint: xorg

This occurred on my initial boot after installing Lucid; however, based on previous experiences I believe this occurs on every boot. On previous installs I was able to get around the crash by booting into "single" mode and then running "start gdm".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 8 20:21:16 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100208)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBook5,1
Package: xorg 1:7.5+1ubuntu2
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-12-generic root=/dev/sda5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5+1ubuntu2
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.7-0ubuntu8
 libdrm2 2.4.17-0ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu4
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 04/27/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MB51.88Z.007D.B03.0904271443
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F42D89C8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: Proto
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F42D89C8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMB51.88Z.007D.B03.0904271443:bd04/27/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBook5,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F42D89C8:rvrProto:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F42D89C8:
dmi.product.name: MacBook5,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.32-12-generic

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

@Bryce:

This is an nvidia geforce 9400M. There's not even any upstream support for it in xserver-xorg-video-nv. It falls back to vesa. So this is either an xserver-xorg-video-vesa bug or its an xserver-xorg-core bug I think.

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

The bug for upstream support for the nv driver can be found at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19545, but this information is only tangential to this bug.

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

This bug appears to be triggered by the absence of an xorg.conf file. Normally I don't have an xorg.conf file, so I was seeing the freeze. However, I do not see a hang whenever I have an xorg.conf file with:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "NoTrapSignals" "true"
EndSection

Even with this file I still get Ubuntu telling me that there are no devices found because it tried to use nv. However, I can specify the vesa driver and everything comes up ok.

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

Everything cleared up after removing plymouth. I marked this as a duplicate of the main plymouth bug.