Lucid Alpha2: Plymouth does not work with the current nvidia driver

[philinux]

I get grub menu the tty messages regarding fsck and ureadahead then black screen with spinning cursor, then gdm.

No plymouth.

The only errors on the system are in syslog.

lucid-testing init: plymouth main process (348) terminated with status 1
lucid-testing init: plymouth pre-stop process (1695) terminated with status 2
There are no other plymouth errors in any other log.

I can test plymouth using this.
sudo plymouthd

then

sudo plymouth --show-splash

I get two black boxes with the ubuntu logo, so it must not be running at boot properly.

However on shutdown it shows plymouth being killed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 18 20:34:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100113)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-current 190.53-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic x86_64

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

Comment from Scott James Remnant on bug #495188:

"Also note that you would not expect a graphical screen on NVIDIA
hardware at this point, since the Kernel pieces (the nouveau driver)
have not yet been landed."

[philinux (philcb)]

Using these edits it is now working.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8694678#post8694678
1. Edit /etc/default/grub

add the line

GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x24
also add vga=792 like so
GRUB_LINUX_DEFAULTS="quiet splash vga=792"

2. Edit /etc/grub.d/00_header and locate the line which adds "set gfxmode={GRUB_GFXMODE}" and add the line "set gfxpayload=keep" after it. Line 103 without the quotes.

3. sudo update-grub

4. Comment out "blacklist vesafb" in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf. Line 27
and also add "blacklist vga16fb"

5. Add "vesafb" to /etc/modules and /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

6. sudo plymouth-set-default-theme --list # to see the list of themes
[sudo] password for philinux:
details
fade-in
glow
script
solar
spinfinity
text
ubuntu-logo

7. sudo plymouth-set-default-theme solar --rebuild-initrd

Choose your theme from the above list.

Finally

8. sudo update-initramfs -u

9. Reboot.

[Vishal Rao (vishalrao)]

This blog suggests they are going to trial nouveau for alpha3 if stable: http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/01/ubuntu-desktop-alpha-2-and-alpha-3-work.html

[exploder91 (d-cosner)]

I have the exact same issue as the original poster. I am using NVIDEA 6100 on-board graphics with the latest supported NVIDEA driver. I am just confirming that the bug is present for me too.