(nvidia/oneiric, macbook pro) No graphical plymouth shown during boot or shutdown with uvesafb

[Dave Walker]

Boot transitions from Grub to lightdm without plymouth graphic.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 13 17:44:11 2011
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64+mac (20101218)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro7,1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=9f7a193f-ed8c-4c1e-bb49-8e7846fa1c23 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x800-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap reboot=pci vt.handoff=7
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=9f7a193f-ed8c-4c1e-bb49-8e7846fa1c23 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x800-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap reboot=pci vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/25/10
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP71.88Z.0039.B05.1003251322
dmi.board.name: Mac-F222BEC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F222BEC8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP71.88Z.0039.B05.1003251322:bd03/25/10:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro7,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F222BEC8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F222BEC8:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro7,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

From the logs and configuration, this appears to be an issue with uvesafb and the nvidia driver not playing nicely on your system (or maybe just uvesafb not playing nicely on its own). Since as you've mentioned on IRC you also don't get any console output either, this is not a plymouth problem per se (but thank you for filing it here nevertheless, as that gives us useful data to work with).

I'm reassigning to linux+nvidia-graphics-drivers; I think the bug is probably on the uvesafb side but can't be sure.

A few things that you might try:
 - set GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console (or GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=ofconsole) in /etc/default/grub
 - set GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text in /etc/default/grub
 - set both at the same time
 - pass video=efifb instead of video=uvesafb (may not work anyway because CONFIG_FB_EFI is set to 'y' in the kernel config, not to 'm'...?)

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report on this issue.

However, given the number of bugs that the Kernel Team receives during any development cycle it is impossible for us to review them all. Therefore, we occasionally resort to using automated bots to request further testing. This is such a request.

We have noted that there is a newer version of the development kernel than the one you last tested when this issue was found. Please test again with the newer kernel and indicate in the bug if this issue still exists or not.

If the bug still exists, change the bug status from Incomplete to Confirmed. If the bug no longer exists, change the bug status from Incomplete to Fix Released.

Thank you for your help, we really do appreciate it.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Which of grub-pc and grub-efi-* is installed?

[Zentai Andras (andras-zentai)]

Same problem here with a very different config.

Problem :>
- switching to console input (hit Ctrl + Alt +F1) results garbage on the screen
(console input still works, I can log in & run commands in a "blind mode")
- no graphical plymouth shown during boot or shutdown

Config :>
Dell Optiplex GX60 PC upgraded with an Nvidia Quadro NVS 280 PCI graphics card
lubuntu 32bit, fresh install
kernel 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP
NVIDIA driver 173.14.30

lspci result for the CRAPhics card :>
01:07.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34GL [Quadro NVS 280 PCI] (rev a1)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:11:55PM -0000, Zentai Andras wrote:
> Same problem here with a very different config.

Then please file a separate bug report using 'ubuntu-bug plymouth'. It's
not useful to mix multiple such problems in a single bug report, and it
won't help you get your problem fixed.

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[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.