[Lucid] [Vostro 1000] Boot stucks at plymouth splash screen

[mmbossoni]

Binary package hint: plymouth

Package: plymouth
Version: 0.8.0~-14

After the update to the latest plymouth packages the boot appears to occur, but my laptop stuck at ubuntu logo screen.
Reboot (through Crtl+Alt+Del) works.
If I press the power button the computer do the shutdown process.
I waited about 10 minutes, but I can't reach the logon screen.

searching for plymouth on dmesg I found this
[ 12.991450] plymouthd[305]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fc15778bbdb sp 00007fffaed4f2a8 error 6 in libc-2.11.1.so[7fc157705000+178000]

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

plymouth itself should never block the boot process, even when it fails.

Can you try hitting Alt+F7, to see whether the login screen is waiting for you on VT7?

Please also run 'apport-collect' against this bug, your report is missing much key information that is included by default when using apport.

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

On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 21:47 +0000, mmbossoni wrote:

> After the update to the latest plymouth packages the boot appears to occur, but my laptop stuck at ubuntu logo screen.
>
Could you describe this logo screen? Is it animating?

> searching for plymouth on dmesg I found this
> [ 12.991450] plymouthd[305]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fc15778bbdb sp 00007fffaed4f2a8 error 6 in libc-2.11.1.so[7fc157705000+178000]
>
I wish I knew how to decode these :-/

Scott
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[mmbossoni (mmbossoni-gmail)]

Unfortunately none of VTs are working.. I tryied from F1 to F12 :(

[mmbossoni (mmbossoni-gmail)]

The logo screen is the new ubuntu splash screen while the services are starting.
It is animated until fill the five (or six) points of the "progress".
Sometimes a message to scan hard drives appear (with a message to press C in order to cancel hard drives scanning)

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

Does it stop animating?

[mmbossoni (mmbossoni-gmail)]

yeap!

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

I see you've filed a few bugs on KDE - don't suppose you're using Kubuntu, not Ubuntu are you?

[mmbossoni (mmbossoni-gmail)]

I'm using Kubuntu.

[mmbossoni (mmbossoni-gmail)]

I have a desktop with a A785gm-m mobo, a phenom II x4 945 processor and a GeForce 8600gt video card that works pretty well with this version of plymouth (also using Kubuntu).

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

ok, if you're using kubuntu then this appears to be the same as bug #538524; marking as a duplicate.

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

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 01:07 +0000, mmbossoni wrote:

> I'm using Kubuntu.
>
Ah, awesome!

Could you try something unusual for me: edit /etc/init/plymouth.conf
and scroll down to the bottom, where there's a "pre-stop script" block.
The first line is about kdm.

Comment that line out (add a "#" on the front). Save the file, then
reboot.

What happens now?

Scott
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[mmbossoni (mmbossoni-gmail)]

Hi..
It worked, but apport notified that plymouthd crashed.