[Bug 898370] Re: ubuntu hangs during upstart boot, ie no sysinit is executed

[Steve Langasek]

> I had also no problem with maschine if plymouth is removed. but mountall does
> depend on plymouth, which is not true, so removal with force dependency was done.

It most certainly is true.  Without plymouth, mountall can't ever prompt
you for input when the filesystem fails to mount cleanly!  How did you
go about removing plymouth?  Your bug report shows that at least parts
of it are certainly installed on the system from which you filed this
report.

Your report includes the following information:

> [ 1807.335818] init: Failed to spawn setvtrgb main process: unable to
execute: No such file or directory

setvtrgb is part of the kbd package, which is a dependency of the core
ubuntu system.  Is your system in a consistent state?  It sounds like
either the system is not completely updated to 11.10, or critical
packages are missing.

Your bug report also shows that you've modified /etc/default/grub:

> # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
> GRUB_TERMINAL=console

Did you make this change as part of debugging the plymouth problem, or
was this an existing change?  If you use the default graphical terminal,
does that make a difference in the behavior of plymouth?

This output also suggests a possible problem:

> ProcFB:
>  0 radeondrmfb
>  1 VESA VGA

Your lspci output shows you have only one video card, but there are two
framebuffer modules loaded.  It's possible the kernel modules are
colliding and causing a console hang, which happens to be cleared by
killing plymouthd.

Finally, if you boot with the 'splash' option added to the commandline,
does the system boot successfully?

** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  ubuntu hangs during upstart boot, ie no sysinit is executed

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  the system hangs, just network and ssh is enabled.
  fuser /dev/tty7 reports that plymouth is active on that tty.
  As soon I kill the plymouth process system continuous to boot the other services like atd.
  Bug Report is extracted of maschine after killing plymouth process.
  I had also no problem with maschine if plymouth is removed. but mountall does depend on plymouth, which is not true, so removal with force dependency was done.

  No X Server is installed, machine is just used as server.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDmesg:
   [ 1807.335818] init: Failed to spawn setvtrgb main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory
   [ 1807.350785] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (7605) terminated with status 1
  Date: Wed Nov 30 20:17:12 2011
  DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
  MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg--root-lv--root ro
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB:
   0 radeondrmfb
   1 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg--root-lv--root ro
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-03 (57 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/08/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 2001
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2001:bd07/08/2011:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM4A88TD-VEVO/USB3:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: System Product Name
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
  modified.conffile..etc.init.plymouth.conf: [deleted]

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