Plymouth does not display bootsplash
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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plymouth (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: plymouth
After upgrading from Karmic to Lucid my Kubuntu installation initially came up with plymouth-
This happens with an Intel 945GME graphics controller.
I am almost certain that the display is correctly initialized to graphics mode as the switchover to X happens seamlessly (i.e., the mouse cursor appears over the boot messages before kdm shows up).
When I manually invoke
sudo plymouthd
sudo plymouth --show-splash
on the console the splash screen is correctly displayed and animated.
The configuration per se also looks sensible:
-- 8< --
tg@cygnus:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-05-11 20:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-05-11 20:51 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2010-05-11 08:14 default.plymouth -> /etc/alternativ
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-11 02:14 details
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-11 21:07 kubuntu-logo
tg@cygnus:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 2010-05-11 08:14 /etc/alternativ
-- 8< --
There is one thing I should probably mention: I have encrypted my root partition with cryptsetup, so /lib/ is obviously not yet available when the password prompt is supposed to appear.
However, I also verified the contents of the initrd.img, which also looks sensible:
-- 8< --
tg@cygnus:~/initrd$ ls -al lib/plymouth/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 4 tg tg 4096 2010-05-13 01:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 tg tg 4096 2010-05-13 01:57 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 tg tg 237 2010-05-13 01:57 default.plymouth
drwxr-xr-x 2 tg tg 4096 2010-05-13 01:57 details
drwxr-xr-x 2 tg tg 4096 2010-05-13 01:57 kubuntu-logo
tg@cygnus:~/initrd$ cat lib/plymouth/
[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Kubuntu Logo
Description=A theme that features a blank background with a logo.
ModuleName=script
[script]
ImageDir=
ScriptFile=
-- 8< --
When putting plymouth into debug mode I do not see any errors or other messages related to any attempt to load the splash theme (cf. attached photo).
I am currently somewhat stuck with my investigations. Do you have any idea where how to continue the root cause analysis?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 13 12:43:41 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/
MachineType: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. NC10
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternati
dmi.bios.date: 09/08/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: 11CA.M015.
dmi.board.name: NC10
dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.product.name: NC10
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Just spotted the "Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternati ves/text. plymouth' ] failed with exit code 1" error in the above output. Is having a text theme installed mandatory?