Boot screen displays briefly after reboot, then video dies completely

[Rick McBride]

Binary package hint: plymouth

After performing an upgrade to 11.04 Alpha, the affected system has no functioning video. The UBUNTU boot graphic displays briefly, but after that, the video goes blank. The backlight is on, but nothing shows. Attempting to switch to a PTTY session does not result in video returning.

I was able to get into the system once after a complete power off, however I have not been able to get the system to boot properly since.

The affected system is a lenovo S-10 netbook. I will attempt to get a hardware information dump to attach to this bug, provided that I am able to get video working.
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Architecture: i386
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100921.1)
MachineType: LENOVO Lenovo
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-7-generic root=UUID=25762fd8-388b-4ede-ad35-4b5324d623d8 ro single
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.19-generic 2.6.37-rc3
Tags: natty
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 06/29/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 14CN94WW
dmi.board.name: Mariana
dmi.board.vendor: Lenovo
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Lenovo
dmi.chassis.version: Rev 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr14CN94WW:bd06/29/2009:svnLENOVO:pnLenovo:pvrLenovo:rvnLenovo:rnMariana:rvrRev1.0:cvnLenovo:ct10:cvrRev1.0:
dmi.product.name: Lenovo
dmi.product.version: Lenovo
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Rick McBride (rmcbride)]

FailsafeX does appear to work.

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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

> FailsafeX does appear to work.

If you manually adjust your boot arguments so that you are booting with both 'single' and 'splash' on the kernel commandline (and optionally, booting without 'quiet' set), are you able to successfully boot to the single user menu? If you are, and youselect failsafe X at that point, does X come up?

[Daniel Kessel (dkessel)]

Rick: This might be a duplicate of #683775 and thus a kernel bug. Could you try using the debug kernel package attached to that bug testing it?

[Rick McBride (rmcbride)]

Steve,

I am able to get to failsafe X.

Daniel, I'll have a look at that bug. I guess I blamed plymouth due to it being the last thing to touch video.