Comment 54 for bug 701060

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 01:30:27PM -0000, peterzay wrote:
> On a normal boot, ESC does nothing when the Ubuntu screen displays white
> dots that animate to red.

Uhm, that's very strange - first, because pressing 'esc' should break out
from the splash screen to the text console and show you the various boot
messages; second, because the dots are never supposed to be red but orange
:) I don't know if the wrong color is related to the other problems you're
having, but we definitely need to figure out why the esc key doesn't work in
order to debug this further.

Do Alt+Left, Alt+Right, or Alt+Fn keys work at this point?

Could you try doing the following after a successful boot?:

 - if logged in, log out
 - switch to VT1 with Ctrl+Alt+F1
 - log in as root (or log in as admin user and run sudo -s, if you don't have
   a root password)
 - run 'service gdm stop' to shut down X
 - run 'service plymouth start' to start the plymouth daemon
 - run 'plymouth splash; sleep 30; plymouth quit' as a single commandline

This should bring up the plymouth splash screen in a controlled environment
for 30 seconds at a time, letting you try to interact with it via the
keyboard and then dropping you back to the console after the timeout. Does
Esc have any effect if you do it this way?

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