The new bootsplash does not handle LVM disk encryption [lucid]

[Guy Van Sanden]

Binary package hint: plymouth

Plymouth is dropping to a big text prompt to enter my encryption password after some blinking and proceeds booting with blue/white progress bars.

I upgraded from Karmic installed with an Alternate CD on encrypted LVM.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 8 14:41:55 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision M4400
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: plymouth 0.8.0~-12
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-15-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_DK:en_GB:en
 LC_CTYPE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: plymouth
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 10/30/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A18
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA18:bd10/30/2009:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionM4400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Precision M4400
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and help to improve Ubuntu.

Your report shows that you have the VGA16 framebuffer, so text prompts are the expected behavior due to bug #526892. Does the boot *fail*, or are you simply reporting that it's text-based?

[Guy Van Sanden (gvs)]

Boot does not fail. It's text based with a lot of screen artefacts and flickering.
It shows the blue/white progress bars in combination with text.

This machine has an Nvidia controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96M [Quadro FX 770M] (rev a1)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Ok, marking this bug as a duplicate then. Thanks!