The plymouth bootscreen locks up

[Ian Corne]

Binary package hint: plymouth

I still have acces to it via SSH and everything starts up fine, but GDM doesn't show and I can't switch to any TTY.

Ian

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 18 10:55:20 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
MachineType: HP Pavilion 061 ED723AA-B14 W5160.BE
Package: plymouth (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic root=UUID=284e095b-5c6f-4999-adb7-9eeeef7265b6 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB:
 0 nouveaufb
 1 VGA16 VGA
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: plymouth
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 09/06/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 3.25
dmi.board.name: Puffer2
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr3.25:bd09/06/2005:svnHPPavilion061:pnED723AA-B14W5160.BE:pvr03u0211RE101PUFF200:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnPuffer2:rvr1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: ED723AA-B14 W5160.BE
dmi.product.version: 03u0211RE101PUFF200
dmi.sys.vendor: HP Pavilion 061

[Ian Corne (icorne)]

plymouth:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.0~-17
  Version table:
     0.8.0~-17 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Is what I install. If I remove it, it works just fine,

I'm using the nouveau driver for a 6200 nvidia card.

Ian

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Do you have more than one display output connected?

I'm assuming this is bug #533135; marking as a duplicate.

[Richard Lyon (richthegeek)]

I had this trying to move from the propietary nvidia to nouveau.

First, you need to remove or otherwise corrupt /etc/X11/xorg.conf (mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup)

When you boot, it'll go to the "X not working" screen instead of starting gdm. You can now switch to TTY1, log in, and install nvidia-current.

Your system should now boot, possibly using the nouveau driver.