Ubuntu
lightdm package

Shutdown output with plymouth disabled is ugly (misses newlines)

Bug #1453083 reported by TomasHnyk
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

How to reproduce:
1. Disable plymouth (by setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" in /etc/default/grub and running sudo update-grub)
2. Restart or shut down
3. Watch the mess that gets displayed see screenshot)

My guess is that some newlines are missing in the output.
This is on current 15.04, booting using systemd. Of course, it only takes two to three seconds to shut down and this is the non-default option, but still, it would be nice if the output were nice.

Tags: systemd-boot
Revision history for this message
TomasHnyk (sup) wrote :
Revision history for this message
TomasHnyk (sup) wrote :

I managed to take a picture thta is readable - it seems lightdm is the culprit as the output starts looking normal when it is shut down (is this a bug in lightdm?)

Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Yeah, quite possibly it doesn't properly reset the terminal after it shuts down X. We might be able to add a workaround to lightdm.service, some ExecStopPost= which resets the terminal. But maybe this can be fixed in a better way in X.

Changed in systemd (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
affects: systemd (Ubuntu) → lightdm (Ubuntu)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Setting to triaged, trivially reproducible in QEMU.

tags: added: systemd-boot
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.