[SRU] Fix black screen on second boot due to video drivers not being ready.

Bug #2066275 reported by Scarlett Gately Moore
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
sddm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Noble
Fix Committed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

[ Impact ]

 * Users experience black screen on second boot after fresh install due to video drivers not being ready.

 * The patch adds a needs for systemd to wait until drivers are complete before sddm login manager.

[ Test Plan ]

 * New install. Reboot 2 times, you will run into a black screen ( seems random, all video drivers affected though )

 * With the random nature of the bug it cannot be cleanly reproduced. Of 3 computers only one of mine experienced the problem.

[ Where problems could occur ]

 * systemd services boot order? possibly affect something else?

 * Tested in oracular and no issues have arised.

[ Other Info ]

 * Closes {LP #2065321)

summary: - SRu: Fix black screen on second boot due to video drivers not being
+ [SRU] Fix black screen on second boot due to video drivers not being
ready.
Changed in sddm (Ubuntu Noble):
milestone: none → noble-updates
milestone: noble-updates → ubuntu-24.04.1
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in sddm (Ubuntu Noble):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in sddm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I looked at the source code for sddm in Oracular and discovered that this change is included in it so I'm marking the Oracular task as Fix Released.

Changed in sddm (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I don't understand why a second bug was created for this SRU when using bug 2063143 (of which bug 2065321 is a duplicate) would likely have more people willing to do the verification.

Changed in sddm (Ubuntu Noble):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-noble
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Scarlett, or anyone else affected,

Accepted sddm into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sddm/0.20.0-2ubuntu4.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

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