No xsplash, I get console boot messages instead

[Mario Vukelic]

Binary package hint: xsplash

This report in response to the karmic beta release notes that requests bugs filed for unclean boot processes.

The /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc that are mentioned (see attached video) are external USB disks. I use automatic login, so no gdm password screen. The video stops when the desktop appears.
I don't get an xsplash when shutting down, either.

Please let me know if you need any more info.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 5 18:48:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xsplash 0.8.2-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: xsplash
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

Forgot to add that this system was upgraded from jaunty (where usplash was fine) at around alpha 5.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

The text is normal

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz)]

The text is just *ugly* and it's a huge step backwards compared to Jaunty IMHO ! That reminds me of my days with SuSE Linux 5.3 with kernel 2.0.38 and not the current version of Ubuntu as of fall 2009. People will complain about this. If I want to have text boot messages, I turn splash screens off manually, but the default boot design should be neat and all graphically. If you can't use KMS for whatever reason, then you should have stayed with usplash.

I suggest blanking the screen completely during boot. I hope to see KMS-based splash screens in 10.04, though.

Adrian

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

I couldn't agree more with Adrian. Will repost this on the linked bug.

[qjqqyy (qjqqyy)]

for me, it just continued to show usplash and xsplash is installed
maybe it was startupmanager interfering