No text rendering in Plymouth with current initramfs-tools

[Luke]

Running Ubuntu Onieric with initramfs-tools-bin_0.99ubuntu2_i386.deb , there are no text prompts in plymouth message or plymouth ask-for-password. In the password function the password entry box works, and the password is accepted, but text such as which disk you are opening is NOT rendered. Unless video output cuts off, forcing Plymouth to restart after root filesystem mount (after which text works), this also prevents fsck messages from appearing.

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/inbitramfs-tools/scripts/init-top to call plymouth with --debug , making a new inbitramfs, rebooting with it, and switching to console at the password prompt. Again, the parts about plymouth-label being unable to open libGL.so.1 are suspect here, though adding an aditional hook to copy that into the initramfs causes video output to turn off and STAY off.