if "splash" and "quiet" are on, system crashes on startup

[AlainKnaff]

If "quiet" and "splash" are on in /boot/grub/menu.lst, system crashes shortly after startup.

The screen goes black (both on DVI and on VGA), and the system stays unresponsive to the network.

# lspci | fgrep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

What version of ubuntu are you using?

You should assign the bug to the package:
* plymouth since 10.04 Lucid Lynx,
* xsplash in 9.10 Karmic Koala and
* usplash in versions before that.

Thanks your report :)

[AlainKnaff (kubuntu-misc)]

10.04

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Please run 'apport-collect 574943' on the affected system.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[AlainKnaff (kubuntu-misc)]

I can no longer reproduce it on current versions of Kubuntu 10.04

But I suspect what happened was a combination between bug 574808 (RAID issue causing the actual failure to boot) and 574814 (display issue hiding any indication of what really went wrong).

Lesson learned: messing with the display during early boot is a really bad idea, because it removes means of tracking down other unrelated problems if it goes wrong.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

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