console-setup messes up usplash and vice versa
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | console-setup (Ubuntu) |
Medium
|
Colin Watson | ||
Bug Description
If I boot without the splash option, console-setup works as expected and configures the keymap and font correctly.
If I boot with the splash option and remove /etc/rcS.
If I boot with the splash option and console-setup enabled, usplash freezes half way through the boot process. The last message I can see is
"Setting up console font and keymap..."
Afterwards I get distorted colors in the bottom half of the screen (see attached screenshot) until X is started.
The font and keymap is *not* properly setup.
If I switch to Alt+F1 and run setupcon, everything is fine. After switching to X and back again to Alt+F1, the console is reset (easily noticeable, because I set up console-setup to use terminus, and I get the bold standard font again).
All in all, usplash and console-setup do not play well together very nicely. This bug is maybe related to #60129
| Michael Biebl (mbiebl) wrote : | #1 |
| Michael Biebl (mbiebl) wrote : | #2 |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : | #3 |
The next version of usplash will run setupcon --force when quitting usplash at the end of the boot process, which will help.
| Michael Biebl (mbiebl) wrote : | #4 |
/etc/init.
| Changed in console-setup: | |
| importance: | Untriaged → Medium |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : | #5 |
console-setup (1.7ubuntu10) edgy; urgency=low
* console-setup Depends: perl; something in ckbcomp is causing perl to
'use utf8' implicitly, and some of the necessary modules aren't in
perl-base (closes: Malone #60203).
* Allow preseeding of console-
console-
console-
* Don't set up the console font at boot time if usplash is running, since
that seems to trigger a kernel bug that corrupts the usplash display
(closes: Malone #60483).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:01:54 +0100
| Changed in console-setup: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| assignee: | nobody → kamion |
| Michael Biebl (mbiebl) wrote : | #6 |
Dunno how to reopen this bug report, but there is a regression in feisty:
I'm running console-setup 1.13ubuntu3 and the bug has reappeared.
| Matthias Urlichs (smurf) wrote : | #7 |
(Almost) the same thing happens if you create a new feisty installation using (e.g.) debootstrap.
The reason for this problem appears to be that the postinst script unconditionally runs
setupcon --force --save
at the end. This messes up the X display. Switching to text mode and back into X cures the display anomaly, but ...
Why is that call there, anyway? It definitely doesn't belong into a postinst!
| Matthias Urlichs (smurf) wrote : | #8 |
re-opening -- regression in Feisty
| Changed in console-setup: | |
| status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : | #9 |
Matthias, the issue you describe is recorded by bug 73955
| Changed in console-setup: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
cat /etc/usplash.conf
# Usplash configuration file
xres=1680
yres=1050