Plymouth does not display the graphical boot splash
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Plymouth |
Unknown
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Unknown
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| plymouth (Gentoo Linux) |
Unknown
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Unknown
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| plymouth (Ubuntu) |
Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When booting from Ubuntu 14.10 daily-live image from 17th September 2014 Plymouth does display the graphical boot splash. However, once Ubuntu 14.10 is installed Plymouth does not display the graphical boot splash while the system is booting. Instead just a black screen is present up until Unity Greeter is loaded.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: plymouth 0.9.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
BootLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/boot.log'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Sep 17 21:55:35 2014
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-17 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha i386 (20140917)
MachineType: IBM 2668Q1G
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1YET65WW (1.29 )
dmi.board.name: 2668Q1G
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:
dmi.product.name: 2668Q1G
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg) wrote : | #1 |
Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom) wrote : | #3 |
I'm experiencing this issue as well (nouveau). Removing of "vt.handoff=7" from cmdline fixes it.
Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom) wrote : | #4 |
Also bug 1343841 looks like the same.
theghost (theghost) wrote : | #5 |
Also have this issue. Need to press a key to enable screen during boot.
Elfy (elfy) wrote : | #6 |
See the same here in Xubuntu.
removing vt.handoff=7 get 1 line of text, low then high resolution then plymouth
as post #5 - any key leads to plymouth showing
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote : | #7 |
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://
tags: | added: iso-testing |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
importance: | Medium → High |
Esa Peuha (esa-peuha) wrote : | #8 |
I'm seeing this too, and I find it very annoying, because the screen goes blank long enough to make my monitor power down, and it takes over ten seconds to power back up when the video signal is returned.
So, I added "plymouth.
Esa Peuha (esa-peuha) wrote : | #9 |
Da Xue (daxue) wrote : | #10 |
For me, this seems to be a kernel 3.16 bug. I can get 14.04.2 LTS to display the splash by using the 3.13 kernel. Once I boot to the 3.16 kernel, i lose the splash. I made a bug in the kernel meta package.
https:/
Esa Peuha (esa-peuha) wrote : | #11 |
Just because the kernel does something differently doesn't mean it's a kernel bug. There's clearly a relevant bug in plymouth that I reported to plymouth upstream two months ago ( https:/
hectorsales (hectorvicente30) wrote : | #12 |
Same here, after upgrade recently from Ubuntu version 14.04.1 to 14.04.2 version( LTSEnablementSt
http://
Regards
D. Charles Pyle (dcharlespyle) wrote : | #13 |
Seeing the same in Trusty 14.04 LTS with kernel 3.16. I am now at 3.16.0-34 and still see the same behavior. Every fix I have tried fails to make it work as it did work in as late as 3.14 kernels, and did work in all the 3.13 series. I think that the problem is kernel configuration in the 3.16 kernels. I do not know about 3.15 kernels as none of those I attempted to use would boot my system properly at all.
I have yet to build my own 3.16 kernels to try to track this down but I have noticed that one of the differences between the 3.13 and 3.14 series kernels, and the 3.16 series kernels, is that CONFIG_
I am using a Radeon HD 5750 card with dual, Dell S2440L monitors.
Any further information needed, let me know. I am going to attempt to use apport to send up my configuration, and so forth, in a couple minutes. Last time I tried it failed in another bug.
D. Charles Pyle (dcharlespyle) wrote : | #14 |
Tried and apport-collect failed again. Just let me know if any other information is necessary and I will do what I can to provide it to help track this down.
D. Charles Pyle (dcharlespyle) wrote : | #15 |
Per comment #3 I can confirm that manual deletion of $vt_handoff or vt_handoff=7 from the grub kernel line allows the plymouth splash screen to display on a 3.16 series kernel. Changing vt_handoff=1 to vt_handoff=0 in the /etc/grub.
Whatever is going on there with vt_handoff is affecting plymouth splash screen only when running a 3.16 series kernel. It does not affect 3.13 or 3.14 series kernels. Hope this additional information helps track down this bug. In my configuration, leaving $vt_handoff in the kernel line causes both monitors to shut down with no signal from the video card until it reaches the lightDM/Unity screen while also running on a 3.16 series kernel, so this bug is more severe than just a cosmetic issue.
no longer affects: | plymouth |
pst007x (turone) wrote : | #16 |
This bug also affects Ubuntu 15.10
Kernel 4.2.0-17-generic
NVIDIA V355.11 (open-source)
Boot screen only shows logo and black background, overlayed with text.
Tried usual fixes, changing screen resolution, etc, but no change
Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote : | #17 |
Confirmed in Lubuntu Xenial Xerus Alpha 2.
jiaowen520li (jiaowen520li) wrote : | #18 |
Confirmed in Ubuntu Kylin Xenial Alpha 2.
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | High → Medium |
Phill Whiteside (phillw) wrote : | #19 |
Present in Beta 2
sudodus (nio-wiklund) wrote : | #20 |
I can confirm that we have this problem in Lubuntu Beta 2 version dated 20160323. It is also affecting 'Encrypted home': the passphrase is not displayed, there is nothing but a blue screen.
But it is not BSOD, because the system is alive underneath ;-)
sudodus (nio-wiklund) wrote : | #21 |
Sorry, I mean 'Encrypted disk'. The passphrase is not displayed, but you can type it in and finish with the enter key, and after that arrive at the login screen of Lubuntu.
This bug is also present in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 Beta 2.
Ivan S. (ivan-sushik) wrote : | #23 |
Same thing on Xubuntu 15.10.
Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg) wrote : | #24 |
If you are seeing this issue in VirtualBox then it is the intended behaviour. The VirtualBox graphics device was blacklisted from Plymouth more than a year ago.
sudodus (nio-wiklund) wrote : | #25 |
No it is in real computers, for example my Toshiba laptop
http://
Lubuntu has only a dark blue screen (not the text mode Plymouth text and dots), only a dark blue screen, no text at all. The bug affects i386 and amd64, bios mode and uefi mode.
sudodus (nio-wiklund) wrote : | #26 |
I should add that the text messages are there, and can be seen if you boot without the boot options 'quiet splash'. I think the splash option makes the difference.
sudodus (nio-wiklund) wrote : | #27 |
Lubuntu Xenial i386 desktop - live session:
Without the boot option splash, the text 'Please remove the installation medium, then press ENTER'.
Otherwise it is not seen, and the user gets the impression that the computer does not poweroff or reboot. I think that several different problems will be solved, when this bug is squashed,
Søren Weber (soren-jido) wrote : | #28 |
I have also seen this (as in #26) for Kubuntu 16.04 upgraded from 14.04.4 on HP EliteBook 2560p.
I did not see this on Lenovo X1 Carbon upgraded from Kubuntu 15.10.
David (karonzon) wrote : | #29 |
I'm experienceing the same bug as mentioned from comments #25 onwards with Lubuntu 16.04 i386. The PC is an eMachines EL1600. This could be related to the kernel. When I was running Lubuntu 14.04 with the 3.13 kernel, Plymouth worked as it should. When I updated the kernel to 3.16 a similar bug with the Plymouth theme was exprienced (basically half the screen being displayed) and that was fixed when I went back to the 3.13 kernel.
i2000s (i2000s) wrote : | #30 |
Not showing the splash screen after I reinstalled Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.2.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.