Splash screen displayed too late / too short

[David Henningsson]

Binary package hint: plymouth

After pressing enter in the grub menu, I'm shown a blank screen (only 80x25 cursor) for 15 seconds, then the boot logo appears for one second, then gdm starts.

Expected more time of splash screen and preferrably less of blank screen.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 18 23:08:08 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20091209)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA770T-UD3P
Package: plymouth 0.8.0~-17
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic root=UUID=ea805cd5-71ba-47e4-9ac8-14e70eaf8a61 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=sv_SE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB:
 0 radeondrmfb
 1 VGA16 VGA
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: plymouth
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 06/24/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F2
dmi.board.name: GA-MA770T-UD3P
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd06/24/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA770T-UD3P:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA770T-UD3P:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-MA770T-UD3P
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

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

Effectively, this is bug #540801. Although you happen to see the splash screen briefly, where the submitter of that bug doesn't see it at all, the long delay without a splash screen has the same basic cause.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.