regression: usplash causes system to beep aloud

[Stefan Krause]

Binary package hint: libusplash0

On my laptop (a HP hdx 9400) 8.04 x86 and x86_64 boot fine with splash enabled.

With 8.10 final with nvidia restricted drivers as soon as the system boots up the speakers start to beep aloud until they beep continuously.
This happens while booting, shutting down, entering standby, resuming, logging off.
While logging off the beeps last only while the screen goes black.

In any case it seems to be only an aesthetic (acoustic) bug since the system correctly performs the tasks as expected (e.g. boots up and logs off fine).

If I change the kernel boot parameters so that splash gui is not used (i.e. removing 'splash' option from the kernel boot line at /boot/grub/menu.lst the system boots fine.

[Stefan Krause (stefan-krause)]

Maybe I should add that I'm getting a vbe_init failed (error code -22) at the very beginning of the boot process, but I get that also with the other kernel options that allow me to boot:
[ 2.325779] uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d
[ 2.325892] uvesafb: make sure that the v86d helper is installed and executable
[ 2.325986] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2)
[ 2.326099] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
[ 2.326211] uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22

[Wakka (johnnyfs)]

Hi there i think the bug you're getting is the same as mine, i uploaded a video on youtube so the developers can try to fix the problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHdR65Lti1g

Regards,

Wakka

[Stefan Krause (stefan-krause)]

Yes it's absolutely the same case, I think I get the same messages on my screen. What laptop do you own?
Maybe you also could also attach the files mentioned on https://wiki.edubuntu.org/DebuggingUsplash (though I've seen the issue with ubuntu und kubuntu)

[Wakka (johnnyfs)]

I own a asus M70V, but this also happens on my HP Desktop, i just disabled the splash and it was solved.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

This happens to me too. Both times it has happened I noticed that one common factor was the uvesa v86d warnings. I have an HP Pavilion dv6500t. I don't know anyone that could stand that noise for more than a minute it's so horrible.

[David LPx (mykeysdavid)]

Same here, even with the latest ubuntu 8.10, the PC sometimes beeps like crazy in between "Starting up" and "Loading hardware drivers".

[ 1.783894] uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d
[ 1.784024] uvesafb: make sure that the v86d helper is installed and executable
[ 1.784194] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2)
[ 1.784360] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
[ 1.784508] uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22
[ 1.869095] ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [8]

This doesn't happen when using the VESA drivers, but using the nvidia proprietary drivers cause usplash to go crazy.

[C Pirnat (histoplasmosis)]

This makes the system unusable this should be marked as a critical bug! I experienced the same thing with an upgrade from hardy. Had to boot kernel .19 which works fine and disable splash for the .27 kernel.

[zp (zekopeko-deactivatedaccount)]

i'm on a desktop pc and i'm also getting this. the beep happens also on shutdown and since my monitor losses video signal before any errors are displayed i have no idea what's happening.

the system in question is Abit IP35 w/ Q6600, 8600GTS

[aldebx (aldebx)]

Gosh!! I was being driven crazy by this bug!
On my laptop with nVidia GeForce8400M GS this happens randomly at bootup, shutdown, while entering suspend and simply logging off and on. Since this happens also in occasions other than bootup and shutdown I guess it is not so tightly related to the usplash module.

This always happens with restricted 'nvidia' drivers, always with version 177, seldom with 173.

Today's updates from nvidia-glx-173 (173.14.12-1-0ubuntu4) to 173.14.12-1-0ubuntu5 made the problem to always appear also with driver 173.

[aldebx (aldebx)]

This is just to add that with removing the splash option and upgrading to version 177 of nvidia drivers this problem seems to be worked around.

[Wakka (johnnyfs)]

Wow! I just tried the live cd with the final version and i am completely -_- the bug was not fixed and it was detected 1 month be4 the final release...This bug is critical and there should be an upgrade patch to solve it instead of just editing the files like i did...

[Tim Potter (musikgoat)]

I will attach my output of the following:

sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.txt
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst > menu.lst
cat /etc/usplash.conf > usplash.conf
uname -a > uname-a.txt

I've incorrectly marked this ticket as dup, but changed that, and marked this bug as the master, as the relevance seems more correct and straightforward.

[halhen (henrik-hjalmarsson)]

Same thing on my Dell XPS 1330.

My problems may have started when I removed the "quiet" option from grub. I don't think I've seen this with that option on.

Attached is

sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.txt
dmesg > dmesg.txt
/boot/grub/menu.lst > menu.lst
/etc/usplash.conf > usplash.conf
uname -a > uname-a.txt

[j3f0 (tevelized)]

this isn't just a noise error the nvidia driver specifically 177 interferes with the iwlagn and causes boot to freeze. causes bootstrap error code -10 or complete failure. also causes X to fail as well.

this was tested on an Asusm70vm-C1 dual boot with vista home premium.

[Stefan Krause (stefan-krause)]

Januty alpha 3 has the same problem. As a workaround it seems that changing the boot option splash to nosplash avoids the situation, but since it doesn't happen always (I had it with alpha 3 with the noquiet and splash option) it's maybe just a timing problem and not directly splah related problem.

[Osiris2258 (void2258)]

I am also experiencing this problem on my Dell M1530. During boot, the computer sounds like it is going into v-fib. occasionally, the computer does not finish booting, and I have to hard reset. System has a fresh install of 8.10, fully updated.

[j3f0 (tevelized)]

alright in recent trials I'm beginning to believe that this is a hardware conflict probably the intel hd audio card it seems like we all have the same audio card. removing the splash comment in grub fixes the issue.

user@local-host:~$ sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

<CODE>title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
uuid 350e9591-f15d-4764-a69c-272e95287576
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=350e9591-f15d-4764-a69c-272e95287576 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet</CODE>

I have found this problem on 8.10 64 bit and 32 bit it seems to happen more frequently on the 64 bit and even happens during live cd install on the 64 bit but does not happen on the 32 bit live cd install.

simply remove the splash at the end of the kernel line. This stops the horrible beeping noise and a number of other unusual problems. It would be nice to pin point this to a specific piece of hardware, We all seem to be having this problem with newer hardware so lets see if we can't figure out what's going on. I'm attaching my lspci -vvn file compare your hardware compliment and lets see if we can make this stop on process of elimination. I have the same beeping noise even when booting into the install screen on the live CD which uses the usplash interface.

[Sene (elias-sajo)]

I have a Realtek integrated audio on my PC so not an Intel one.

Can attach lspci later on if someone wants to see it.

[Tim Potter (musikgoat)]

Yes, and I have an Nvidia branded AC'97 audio controller using the snd-intel8x0 driver.

Anyways, this issue seems to be fixed upon a kernel update to 2.6.27-13-generic, at least for me on intrepid x64.

Can someone else confirm?

[Removed by request (removed1836289)]

2.6.28-12-generic, nvidia gf9800gtx+ 185.19, still happening.

lspci -vvnn attached.

[j3f0 (tevelized)]

upgraded to 2.6.28-12-generic. Nvidia Geforce 9600 GS all versions of for
this card were used no problems reported for this problem seems to have gone
away. excessive testing was done for a conflict between nvidia and wifi
drivers I've been having.

[Mikel Ward (mikelward)]

I'm seeing this for the first time on Ubuntu 9.04 with 2.6.28. Ubuntu 8.10 (any kernel) and Ubuntu 9.04 with 2.6.27 were fine.

[j3f0 (tevelized)]

Mike,

Did you do an upgrade from 2.6.27 or did you do a new re-install. As soon as I installed 9.04 2.6.28-11 generic on a clean install the usplash beep stopped. However, new problems cropped up like now I don't boot down all the time and suspend appears to be broken. The problems are worse in Kubuntu so I don't use it. On a side note I couldn't even run the live cd/dvd 8.10 without the horrible beep caused by usplash. Haven't had a single blip since 9.04 though. It appears rock solid.

j3f0

[Mikel Ward (mikelward)]

Upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10.

I'm pretty sure that after the upgrade, I had 2.6.27.

Some time soon after, there was a 9.04 update around which installed 2.6.28-11 and made it the default kernel.

The problems only started after installing that update and rebooting.

$ zgrep -h 'status installed linux-image' /var/log/dpkg.log.3.gz /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz /var/log/dpkg.log.1 /var/log/dpkg.log
2009-04-15 15:31:24 status installed linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.31
2009-05-15 19:45:47 status installed linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 2.6.28-11.42
2009-05-15 19:49:39 status installed linux-image-generic 2.6.28.11.15
2009-05-15 19:59:33 status installed linux-image-2.6.27-10-generic 2.6.27-10.20
2009-05-15 20:00:05 status installed linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.16
2009-05-15 20:00:30 status installed linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic 2.6.27-9.19
2009-06-24 09:37:08 status installed linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.44
2009-06-24 09:37:59 status installed linux-image-generic 2.6.28.13.17

Upgrade was on May 15. Assuming that grep pattern is right, but not sure.

[LenzM (m-lenzen)]

I'm having the same problem using both 2.6.28-13-generic and 2.6.28-11-generic

Removing splash from the grub boot options stopped the noise.

I've attached the results of lspci -vvnn

[Vihar (vmankov)]

The same now and here on a desktop with 9.04x64 bit, nVidia 9600 with nfidia 180 driver, Intel sound card and upgraded to the last kernel.

It started suddenly after I hibernated for the first time the system (just to see how it works...).
On booting I could bypass this beep choosing the recovery mode and then hitting Enter without recovering. But at the logoff while restarting it beeps till the end and the text output is of huge size (e.g. like the resolution is lowered drastically. "usplash.conf" is saying the resolution is 1600x1200 but it's not true - nvidia driver made it 1800x1440.

Deleting "splash" from the menu.lst helps for now.

Attaching specs.txt.

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

I have the same problem on a Thinkpad T61 (nvidia driver & intel sound card). It appears irregularly during bootup. It can be very distressing when you boot your laptop in a public place, e.g. a train.
I noticed that the problem seemed to be fixed with the 2.6.28-14 kernel, and has reappeared with the update to 2.6.28-15.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

The usplash package has been superseded by plymouth and has been removed from the Ubuntu archive. Closing all related bugs.