[Bug 516412] Re: Pressing <Enter> causes X to freeze

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 05:28:03AM -0000, RichardNeill wrote:
> 1. Reboot.
> 2. Wait for autologin to occur.
> 3. Press enter on desktop.
> 4. X will crash, and I get dumped back to password prompt to login.
> 5. Then it works ok till I reboot again.

Do you have any custom init scripts or upstart jobs installed on this
system?  If so, chances are that one of these is breaking the console
underneath X.

> I tried the recommended suggestion of removing plymouth, but it isn't
> possible to do that in oneiric without removing the entire base-system.

This is NOT recommended.  This has only been recommended by people who have
no involvement with Ubuntu development.  You are correct, plymouth is part
of the base system.  This is not a bug and not an accident.

> Incidentally, I'm using a Lenovo S205 laptop, which has a radeon GPU but
> where I have NOT installed the binary driver, and the bootloader is
> grub-legacy (grub-2 won't work with EFI).

I expect this is entirely unrelated, but note that there is a grub-efi
package for grub2 EFI support.

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Title:
  Pressing <Enter> causes X to freeze

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: plymouth

  I am running ubuntu 10.04 Alpha2 and after last nights updates
  pressing the enter key causes the whole system to freeze and I have to
  hard reboot.

  Only removing Plymouth would allow me to work normally.

  The system still respond to ssh.

  WORKAROUND (thanks to Simon Baconnais): kill X by pressing
  Ctrl+Alt+Print+K fixes the problem until the next reboot.

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