mystery messages during boot process
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubuntu-app-launch (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
On my Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS laptop, after a cold boot, after I enter the password for unlocking the boot hard drive, five dots change colors at a rate of about one dot per second. Based on that timing, about 90 seconds into the process (the dots changing colors takes about 99 seconds and the dots graphic in some form is up for about 110 seconds) a message appears on screen, saying something about using ctrl-c. The message is maybe two lines long and is displayed only for about a second. I don't know what it says.
It wouldn't help to tell me what it says. I likely won't have that report with me when I boot, say, a few months from now.
The package is as proposed by Launchpad and I'm not using that laptop now so I don't know the version. No crash was apparent.
Please post the message for long enough for most people to read it and decide what to do. If it offers an action that can only be invoked during a brief period, please rephrase it to tell us what we will be able to do when that moment comes and then have it tell us when that moment has arrived.
Even better would be to lengthen the time period during which the action can be invoked with the intended effect.
| Nick (nick-levinson) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- mystery message during HDD unlocking + mystery messages during boot process |
Update: Screen boot messages auto-disapppear too fast.
I boot Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. During the boot process, the black GUI screen has a rotating icon and an Ubuntu logo.
That screen shows two messages. I guess they're important or Ubuntu wouldn't show them. They display for only about a quarter of a second each. One is, I think, 3 lines long. I have no idea what they say.
Make all such messages persist. Align them so they appear in chronological sequence, the earliest at the top. That should be the order because we're not likely staring at the screen during the whole bootup process, so we'll have to catch up.
If there is progress supporting a displayed message so that completion of progress was causing the message to disappear, with message persistence add a progress indicator just for the message's cause that will persist past completion.