nothing appears on the screen while booting without splash option

[u-foka]

Binary package hint: plymouth

Hy!

I've removed the splash option from my kernel's command line, and expected that plymouth should be loaded and falling back to it's details plugin (what I can't select explictly since the last upgrade), but when I boot up, I can't see anything on the screen (except a kernel message about my unknown mmc controller version, and fsck but making them quiet is another bug)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 28 10:39:13 2010
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro1310
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-17-generic root=UUID=3627ba63-f81a-43ac-8e49-846267165266 ro quiet splash vga=792
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB:
 0 VESA VGA
 1 VGA16 VGA
SourcePackage: plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 03/18/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A15
dmi.board.name: 0G930C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd03/18/2009:svnDellInc.:pnVostro1310:pvrNull:rvnDellInc.:rn0G930C:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Vostro1310
dmi.product.version: Null
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Do you see any console output after upgrading to upstart 0.6.5-6? If so, this would be bug #548954.

[u-foka (ufooka)]

Thanks for your reply!

Now with the upgraded upstart I have log messages, with many "cant write bytes: broken pipe" errors.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

thanks, marking as a duplicate of 548954.