No text rendering in Plymouth with current initramfs-tools
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Running Ubuntu Onieric with initramfs-
This bug appears without regard for version of Plymouth, both the last two ubuntu 0.8.2 versions and the Ricotz 0.8.4 versions are affected. Running Plymouth in the initramfs with --debug and switching to console at the password prompt reveals the logs attached in the screen photos in the attached tarball (I was unable to divert the output to a file that survived the boot process).
In the logs there is a reference to plymouth-label being unable to open libGL.so.1 which may be the culprit, as plymouth-label is responsible for test like password prompt details (which disk?) and fsck dialogue. This problem began with the video cutoff bug, but when video is cut off and restored, Plymouth is reloaded and text then renders, the font looking heavier than it previously did from the initramfs.
The "bootlogs" tarball contains photographs of the screen in console after editing the plymouth script in /usr/share/