Bug #523788 “Only see X mouse cursor on VT during boot” : Bugs : plymouth package : Ubuntu

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-02-18:

#1

BootDmesg.txt Edit (40.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (10.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (436 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (98.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (212.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-02-18:

#2

Please note that this apport information is from a working boot. If it helps, I can try and collect it from a failing one.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-02-18:

#3

This time I only got one error message from fuser:

------------- 8<------------------
Cannot stat file /proc/96/fd/10: No such file or directory
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/tty7: root 313 F.... plymouthd
------------- 8<-----------

pid 96 is the bootchart collector process.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-02-18:

#4

I can confirm the issue on several lucid boxes too

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Ralph Ulrich (eulenreich) wrote on 2010-02-19:

#5

I can confirm this using:
lucid
nvidia drivers
pam_mount for mounting encrypted /home partition

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Ralph Ulrich (eulenreich) wrote on 2010-02-19:

#6

this update solved my issue:
2010-02-19 16:01:49 configure metacity 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu2 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu2
2010-02-19 16:01:49 status unpacked metacity 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu2
2010-02-19 16:01:49 status half-configured metacity 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu2
2010-02-19 16:01:50 update-alternatives: run with --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager x-window-manager /u
sr/bin/metacity 60 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz x-window-manager.1.gz /usr/share/man
/man1/metacity.1.gz
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status installed metacity 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu2
2010-02-19 16:01:50 configure virtuoso-nepomuk 6.1.0-0ubuntu3 6.1.0-0ubuntu3
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status unpacked virtuoso-nepomuk 6.1.0-0ubuntu3
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status half-configured virtuoso-nepomuk 6.1.0-0ubuntu3
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status installed virtuoso-nepomuk 6.1.0-0ubuntu3
2010-02-19 16:01:50 configure xserver-common 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status unpacked xserver-common 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status half-configured xserver-common 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status installed xserver-common 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
2010-02-19 16:01:50 configure xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
2010-02-19 16:01:50 status half-configured xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu1
2010-02-19 16:01:51 configure soprano-daemon 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status unpacked soprano-daemon 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status half-configured soprano-daemon 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status installed soprano-daemon 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4
2010-02-19 16:01:51 configure libsoprano4 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status unpacked libsoprano4 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status half-configured libsoprano4 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status installed libsoprano4 2.4.0.1+dfsg.1-0ubuntu4
2010-02-19 16:01:51 trigproc libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu2 2.11.1-0ubuntu2
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status half-configured libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu2
2010-02-19 16:01:51 status installed libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu2

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2010-02-20:

#7

This issue is not solved by those updates in my installation.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-02-24:

#8

Confirmed more by duplicates, targetting to lucid.

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Lucid):
importance:	Undecided → High

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) on 2010-02-24

tags:

added: iso-testing

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Usama Akkad (damascene) wrote on 2010-02-26:

#9

I didn't understand the whole report because it's too tecniacl for me

some time on my system I get the mouse only working on the X and I need to switch to VT and to go back to X to solve it.
then I suddenly I get kicked out to the login screen

I'm using auto login

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elaveriao (elaveriao) wrote on 2010-02-26:

#10

Usama Akkad. You get kicked out because of #522692. See more information.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/522692

I can confirm this and #522692 on my Dell Vostro 1710. I don't know if it's related, but both bugs affects me when using Broadcom STA (privative license) driver. Which seems to be Martin's case.

But both bugs seem to go away if I use b43 (free license) driver (unfortunattly, then I get hit by #502433).

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godhika (godhika) wrote on 2010-03-03:

#11

I can confirm this behaviour also on a Dell studio 15 laptop without any propietary driver and ATI HD 3450 card, but would also like to share another observation: This bug does not appear when ureadahead is in "data-collection-mode" (so for example after a kernel update) only when it is doing what it is supposed to do - speed up the boot process (at least on my box). That also might be an explanation why people seem to report (in the ubuntuforum) that the bug disappears after some updates.

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2010-03-12

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Lucid):
milestone:	none → ubuntu-10.04-beta-1
assignee:	nobody → Scott James Remnant (scott)

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2010-03-12:

#12

I'v reported my bug #510524 as a duplicate of this bug.

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KJ4OHH (kj4ohh) wrote on 2010-03-12:

#13

I'm having similar problems on my System76 Starling netbook.

I get the Ubuntu splash screen, then it goes back to a text screen with cursor blinking at the top left and mouse cursor visible.

I'm able to switch back to full X screen by pressing ctrl-alt-F7.

I seem to have no other problems and the system seems to be working besides having to switch back to X after boot. In face I'm using my netbook to file this bug report now.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-03-12:

#14

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This bug was fixed in the package plymouth - 0.8.0~-13

---------------
plymouth (0.8.0~-13) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Don't attach /proc/cmdline to apport reports, this is already in the
    standard info that gets collected...

  [ Alberto Milone ]
  * ubuntu_logo theme:
    - New logo from Otto Greenslade.
    - Switch off dots starting from the ones on the left instead of
      switching them off all at once.

  [ Scott James Remnant ]
  * Move the Ubuntu logo up as discussed with Otto, this makes the mouse
    cursor appear between the logo and dots and solves the optical illusion
    of the logo being too low. LP: #535014.
  * Don't include message about disk checks, which can come from mountall.
  * Drop the rc script splash functions, we don't want the SysV-rc compat
    stuff messing around with the splash screen - this can be entirely
    managed by Upstart now. LP: #528787, #537262.

  * Plymouth Fix Mega Patch:
    - This hasn't yet been broken up into enough bits to send upstream, and
      doesn't *quite* address all the issues yet, but it's a major step.

    - Rewrite the VT handling, rather than abusing /dev/tty0 keep all VT
      operations on the actual VT (tty7), this avoids issues where we set
      the graphics mode of the wrong VT or put the wrong VT into VT_PROCESS
      mode. LP: #520460, #522598, #526321, #533135
    - Don't attempt VT switch when using non-VT consoles.
    - Make VT mandatory for renderer plugins, so we fallback gracefully to
      text when the console is not a VT. LP: #516825, #527083.
    - Restore VT when finished displaying the splash unless plymouth quit
      is called with --retain-splash. LP: #506297.
    - Activate VT from text and details plugins, rather than haphardly in
      the main code, this means the textual boot is also on VT7.
      LP: #518352, #520122.
    - Add a --has-active-vt command that can let gdm inquire whether it
      should reuse Plymouth's VT; fixes the issue where Plymouth has no
      visible splash screen and X ends up on VT1. LP: #519641, #533572.

    - Don't open terminal device in X11, fixes the issue where X will crash
      when debugging plugins using the X11 renderer.
    - Add --tty option to plymouthd for debugging when X is running and
      thus using an alternate VT.

    - Improve deactivate command so that the terminal is no longer watched
      for keyboard input, session is closed, etc. LP: #528787, #531650.
    - Ignore mode changes while deactivated, otherwise we can end up
      resetting the VT back into text mode while X is starting up.
      LP: #523788, #502509.

    - Fix races with simultaneous quit and deactivate commands, or multiples
      of those commands.
    - Ignore --show-splash, --hide-splash, etc. commands while deactivated.
    - Add reactivate command for testing purposes.

- Don't scan out drm buffer contents to fbcon when not called with
quit --retain-splash. LP: #527180.

    - Avoid resetting the terminal to unbuffered mode on every write, this
      results in setting X's VT into raw mode and results in the X server
      crashing on key presses. LP: #532047, #534861, #519460, #520...

This bug was fixed in the package plymouth - 0.8.0~-13

---------------
plymouth (0.8.0~-13) lucid; urgency=low

[ Steve Langasek ]
  * Don't attach /proc/cmdline to apport reports, this is already in the
    standard info that gets collected...

[ Alberto Milone ]
  * ubuntu_logo theme:
    - New logo from Otto Greenslade.
    - Switch off dots starting from the ones on the left instead of
      switching them off all at once.

[ Scott James Remnant ]
  * Move the Ubuntu logo up as discussed with Otto, this makes the mouse
    cursor appear between the logo and dots and solves the optical illusion
    of the logo being too low.  LP: #535014.
  * Don't include message about disk checks, which can come from mountall.
  * Drop the rc script splash functions, we don't want the SysV-rc compat
    stuff messing around with the splash screen - this can be entirely
    managed by Upstart now.  LP: #528787, #537262.

* Plymouth Fix Mega Patch:
    - This hasn't yet been broken up into enough bits to send upstream, and
      doesn't *quite* address all the issues yet, but it's a major step.

- Rewrite the VT handling, rather than abusing /dev/tty0 keep all VT
      operations on the actual VT (tty7), this avoids issues where we set
      the graphics mode of the wrong VT or put the wrong VT into VT_PROCESS
      mode.  LP: #520460, #522598, #526321, #533135
    - Don't attempt VT switch when using non-VT consoles.
    - Make VT mandatory for renderer plugins, so we fallback gracefully to
      text when the console is not a VT.  LP: #516825, #527083.
    - Restore VT when finished displaying the splash unless plymouth quit
      is called with --retain-splash.  LP: #506297.
    - Activate VT from text and details plugins, rather than haphardly in
      the main code, this means the textual boot is also on VT7.
      LP: #518352, #520122.
    - Add a --has-active-vt command that can let gdm inquire whether it
      should reuse Plymouth's VT; fixes the issue where Plymouth has no
      visible splash screen and X ends up on VT1.  LP: #519641, #533572.

- Don't open terminal device in X11, fixes the issue where X will crash
      when debugging plugins using the X11 renderer.
    - Add --tty option to plymouthd for debugging when X is running and
      thus using an alternate VT.

- Improve deactivate command so that the terminal is no longer watched
      for keyboard input, session is closed, etc.  LP: #528787, #531650.
    - Ignore mode changes while deactivated, otherwise we can end up
      resetting the VT back into text mode while X is starting up.
      LP: #523788, #502509.

- Fix races with simultaneous quit and deactivate commands, or multiples
      of those commands.
    - Ignore --show-splash, --hide-splash, etc. commands while deactivated.
    - Add reactivate command for testing purposes.

- Don't scan out drm buffer contents to fbcon when not called with
      quit --retain-splash.  LP: #527180.

- Avoid resetting the terminal to unbuffered mode on every write, this
      results in setting X's VT into raw mode and results in the X server
      crashing on key presses.  LP: #532047, #534861, #519460, #520593,
      #522974, #525393

* I'm aware that if you see the TEXT plugin, it's possible for Enter to
    still crash the X server for some people.  I will be opening a new bug
    for this, and would appreciate details from people affected.

* If you have issues with Enter crashing the X server, and you see a
    GRAPHICAL plugin, check that gdm is up to date - if it is, please
    file new bugs.

* I'm also aware of an issue where after boot, rather than seeing an X
    server, you see the ordinary "login:" getty screen.  Pressing Alt+F7
    should take you to X.  I will be opening a new bug for this, and would
    appreciate details from people affected.

* Don't send fsck progress updates to the boot-duration file.
  * Make all the dots orange just before starting the X server.

* Cute text-version of the splash screen.
    - Added basic support for fsck notification.
    - Added support for showing keys information on separate lines.
 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>   Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:02:54 +0000

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2010-03-13:

#15

It's not solved for me with daily iso desktop amd64
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20100313.1/
which use plymouth 0.8.0 -14

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2010-03-14:

#16

I set the bug to "confirmed", problem is still here on 20100314 netbook and desktop iso

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Fix Released → Confirmed

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on 2010-03-15:

#17

Patrice: I'd appreciate it if you could file a new bug for me, your problems aren't the same as Martin's (since he has identical hardware to me) - and it'd help me debug if I could read your collected information (use ubuntu-bug to file it)

Also please describe in as much detail as you can everything you see during boot.

Thanks

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2010-03-15:

#18

Well, Patrice did already have his own bug, so unmarking bug #510524 as a duplicate.

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2010-03-15:

#19

@Scott : indeed, I thought it was the same bug. I'v already reported my bug with files and a video on #510524

@Steve : thanks

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on 2010-03-15:

#20

Patrice: that was with a much older plymouth - I'd appreciate it if you could do the same again for the current version, and file a new bug with a new video

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2010-03-15:

#21

@Scott, okay. I will do this tonight.

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2010-03-16:

#22

@Scott : reported #510524 with a new video and datas.

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2010-03-16:

#23

Oups I mean #539507

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memartin (memartin) wrote on 2010-03-22:

#24

I'm reporting here because #527009 is marked as duplicate as this one. I get the exact behavior described there. I see X start with the rolling circles, then my login screen flashes up und suddenly goes dark again, showing only some wrong-coloured watermark version of my background image (I'm using plain kdm logon). Doing something like Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then Ctrl+Alt+F7 "refreshes" teh login screen to display correctly (I already knew this trick because PartedMagic requires me to do the same when I start it.)

This is on a do-release-upgrade'd lucid beta form karmic on my ThinkPad T42. lspci says this is my graphics adapter:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]

PS: I've also noticed a sudden X restart after having played a video. Maybe it relates, someone "upstairs" mentioned behavior like this. I've only upgraded this morning, so I cannot say very much more.

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memartin (memartin) wrote on 2010-03-29:

#25

Thanks for the Fix, it solved my problem.

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Only see X mouse cursor on VT during boot

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	plymouth (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Scott James Remnant (Canonical)	Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-1
	Lucid	Fix Released	High	Scott James Remnant (Canonical)	Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-1

Ubuntuplymouth package

Only see X mouse cursor on VT during boot

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