feisty crashes on startup

[Cesare Tirabassi]

Binary package hint: feisty-session-splashes

Feisty Herd 5 crashes on my PC (AMD 64 FX55, ATI X800XT PE) after selecting the nominal boot option both from a CD install or after successful installation on HD.

I guess this is related to splash as if I remove "quiet splash" from the boot command line everything is ok!?

I can provide more info if needed.

PS> Note that to modify the command line is a bit tricky, as the standard config is to hide the grub menu (ESC should be pressed in a time window of a couple of secs).

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Solved by selecting a framebuffer mode (in my case I've choosen 1280x1024/24b = 0x31B).

Added following line to defoptions: vga=795

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

How does this bug have a fix released for it? What package was updated?

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

My apologies if I made a mistake Brian.
I meant to say that the issue is closed for me (perhaps I should have chosen rejected but I wanted this to stay on the record in case it could help other users).
Indeed no fix has been released, and I think there should be one.

I think the simplest would be to add vga=normal in the relevant lines of the boot CD /isolinux/isolinux.cfg (this is how it was done in edgy btw) and in the installed menu.lst.

Thanks for your help and support.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Since it is possible that other people may have a similar issue it is best to leave the bug open so they can find it when searching for bugs and so it can be looked at by a developer. Incidentally could you please add the output of 'sudo lspci -vv' and 'sudo lspci -vvn' to help us troubleshoot this better? Thanks in advance.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Yes, this is already being experienced by several other people. Marking as duplicate of 86666. See more information there, especially towards the end (any vga=NNN parameter works, but for some weird reason without it it always hangs).

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Let me know if I can help you guys in any way.