Pressing <Enter> key causes gdm to restart on first boot
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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plymouth (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: plymouth
Pressing the enter key sometime during the first X session after boot will kill X and gdm will restart. Subsequent logins will work fine. On investigation, this occurs because X is being sent SIGQUIT (see http://
It seems that other distributions are working around this by starting X on a different VT to plymouth.
Original description:
Pressing the enter key causes the whole system to freeze. The system still respond to ssh.
It does not happen on every boot, but a visible screen corruption in the top left side of the screen is a symptom that the crash will happen in that session.
Note: This is not a duplicate of bug #516412 as stated by Steve Langasek in the comment #78 there.
WORKAROUND (thanks to Simon Baconnais): kill X by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Print+K fixes the problem until the next reboot. Some also may want to remove the plymouth package until this bug is fixed.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 56f6196d6c59b6b
CheckboxSystem: c4d84cd56dc0e1c
Date: Tue Feb 16 16:15:36 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.0~-10
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: plymouth
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686
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Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 56f6196d6c59b6b
CheckboxSystem: c4d84cd56dc0e1c
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
MachineType: LG Electronics E200-A.CP29B
Package: plymouth 0.8.0~-10ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
ProcVersionSign
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 10/02/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: ELBRSF0C
dmi.board.name: Lhotse-II
dmi.board.vendor: LG Electronics Inc.
dmi.board.version: Rev0.4b
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: LG Electronics Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.product.name: E200-A.CP29B
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LG Electronics
description: | updated |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: enter freeze frozen key plymouth return ubuntu |
tags: | added: pcert |
summary: |
- Pressing <Enter> key causes X to freeze + Pressing <Enter> key causes X to freeze on VGA16FB system |
summary: |
- Pressing <Enter> key causes X to freeze on VGA16FB system + Pressing <Enter> key causes gdm to restart on VGA16FB system |
summary: |
- Pressing <Enter> key causes gdm to restart on VGA16FB system + Pressing <Enter> key causes gdm to restart on first boot |
description: | updated |
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