Ubuntu
plymouth package

very long black screen at startup

Bug #573058 reported by Sergey Klimov on 2010-05-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #540801: X server starts before Plymouth, or a very short time after (no or brief splash). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	plymouth (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: plymouth

very long black screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 1 17:11:35 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-AR71MR
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=117a2e32-936b-4d27-bcab-a99a2d0b50e1 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ru:ru_UA:en
LANG=ru_UA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 EFI VGA
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 02/26/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: R2090J8
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrR2090J8:bd02/26/2008:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-AR71MR:pvrC3LRP528:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VGN-AR71MR
dmi.product.version: C3LRP528
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation

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Sergey Klimov (nbdarvin) wrote on 2010-05-01:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (52.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (15.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (779 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (118.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (253.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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sanctimon (dj.martin) wrote on 2010-05-02:

Same here, on a 64-bit system, fresh install (upgraded from 9.04 and then did fresh install to test if it solves the issue). No splash screen appears after GRUB selection. A long black screen, only during the late stages of which the hard drive can be heard doing anything.
Intel Core Two Duo
nVidia GeForce 8800 640MB (current version drivers installed)

After a relatively long wait (was not the case with 9.04 and previous versions), there are 5 dots with scrambled colours on screen followed by "Ubuntu" appearing three times on screen with a few dots beneath them. This only lasts a second and then the logon screen appears.

Same phenomenon when shutting down ("Ubuntu" coloured weird and with wague lettering pops up for a second).

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Angel (angel463291) wrote on 2010-12-29:

Ubuntu 10.10, 32-bit system, same problem here. I have tried fresh install more than four times, always same. Intel Dual Core E5200 @ 2.50 GHz, Intel DG41TY Mainboard with builtin graphics card.