/etc/usplash.conf contains wrong values after install

[Anthony Durity]

Binary package hint: usplash

Fresh install of Gutsy via Live CD.

Reboot.

No splash screen and progress bar.
Takes forever to boot but eventually does.
My guess is that Bulletproof X is showing various (unseen) prompts.

/etc/usplash.conf contains a horizontal res of 1280 which is correct
and a vertical res of 1024 which is incorrect. My laptop does 1280x800.

If I change the vertical res to 800 and do a 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure usplash'
everything is groovy and the boot time is astonishingly fast.

[Albert Damen (albrt)]

Confirmed based on duplicate with same problem and resolution.

[moboticdes (moboticdes-linuxmail)]

I can confirm the same problem of endless boot up time (some time even hanged)..
now by editing /etc/usplash.conf and adding 1280 x 800 resolution and after that "sudo dpkg-reconfigure usplash"
all boot up splash and power off splash work fine and even boot time is better.
My laptop: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li1718

[dmatt (martind)]

I marked my bugreport https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/160634 as duplicate of this bug report. Setting resolution in /etc/usplash.conf to my native 1024x768 and running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure usplash' solved my problem.

Having usplash set to wrong resolution severely affects boot time (on my system it took always more than 3 minutes to get to login screen - after reconfiguration it is 1 minute). I used to press CTRL-F1, which causes immediate resume of boot sequence.

I did not find any signs what is done during extra 2 minutes. I just see some time gaps in log files.
The biggest in /var/log/messages goes like this:

Feb 3 11:00:13 harvlin kernel: [ 30.679565] Attempting manual resume
Feb 3 11:00:13 harvlin kernel: [ 31.391822] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Feb 3 11:00:13 harvlin kernel: [ 31.391841] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Feb 3 11:00:13 harvlin kernel: [ 126.186538] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
Feb 3 11:00:13 harvlin kernel: [ 126.187970] agpgart: Detected Ati IGP345M chipset
Feb 3 11:00:13 harvlin kernel: [ 126.196758] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd8000000

I see more duplicates of this bug (including mine) filed in Launchpad. These are the ones I came through, but I don't think I am the right person to mark them as duplicates.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/182228
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/180427
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/179642
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/164587
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/160634
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/159545
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/158828
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/158123
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/158048

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

martind : Thanks a lot for your great work with these duplicate bugs. I opened them all and associated them with their duplicates.

This bug is a duplicate of bug 150930 which is caused by wrong values written in the /etc/usplash.conf file during the installation of ubuntu Gutsy. It is now fixed in next ubuntu release Hardy. The very slow boot time is caused by bug 61711 which often happens when the /etc/usplash.conf file does not contain correct values. You can find workaround for your problems on these two bug reports. Thanks for the time you took to report this bug and feel free to report any other bugs you might find.

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Hardy Alpha 4 Xubuntu 20080204 & 5
Totally brown screen with cursor on CD Live Boot
Ctrl-Alt-F1 screen says:

usplash: No usable theme found for 640x480
screen unit failed
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686

20080109 Xubuntu boots fine. Ubuntu 20080203 boots fine.

1.2 mHz Celeron, Award Bios, 1024x768 Phillips 150P2 LCD. ATI video controller
Of course, xorg.conf just says "Default Monitor", "Default Screen", etc. A lot of no help.

/etc/usplash.conf
xres=640
yres=480

which is wrong. Sure looks like this bug, wrong values in usplash.

I changed to 1024x768 however killall gdm and startx still don't get XFCE going

What was changed in Xubuntu X window support since 20080109?

Jerry