nothing is visible on screen during boot sequence with fbcon disabled -- really annoying when the system decided to run a periodic fsck

[Joshua]

Binary package hint: plymouth

I must disable fbcon due to bad driver. fbcon-nouveau requires X-nouveau (fbcon-nouveau and X-vesa is bad), which is unstable on this machine. fbcon-vesa doesn't work right.

This leaves me with must hard-disable fbcon (alias fbcon off).

Something got broke in an update since the lucid release where this now misbehaves. On release, this displayed a green screen with information on it, now that screen does not display.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 13 12:48:27 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/kubuntu-logo/kubuntu-logo.plymouth
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=ee79c471-4414-4d4f-8b4b-1460e1fa6be1 ro vga=normal nofb nomodeset noplymouth
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 04/09/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1009
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: M3N78-VM
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1009:bd04/09/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM3N78-VM:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Joshua (joshudson)]

set invalid

local copy of /bin/plymouth was damaged