[Bug 701060] Re: Boot failure

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 01:30:27PM -0000, peterzay wrote:
> On a normal boot, ESC does nothing when the Ubuntu screen displays white
> dots that animate to red.

Uhm, that's very strange - first, because pressing 'esc' should break out
from the splash screen to the text console and show you the various boot
messages; second, because the dots are never supposed to be red but orange
:)  I don't know if the wrong color is related to the other problems you're
having, but we definitely need to figure out why the esc key doesn't work in
order to debug this further.

Do Alt+Left, Alt+Right, or Alt+Fn keys work at this point?

Could you try doing the following after a successful boot?:

 - if logged in, log out
 - switch to VT1 with Ctrl+Alt+F1
 - log in as root (or log in as admin user and run sudo -s, if you don't have
   a root password)
 - run 'service gdm stop' to shut down X
 - run 'service plymouth start' to start the plymouth daemon
 - run 'plymouth splash; sleep 30; plymouth quit' as a single commandline

This should bring up the plymouth splash screen in a controlled environment
for 30 seconds at a time, letting you try to interact with it via the
keyboard and then dropping you back to the console after the timeout.  Does
Esc have any effect if you do it this way?

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Title:
  Boot failure

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Occasionally, 10.04 won't boot at all or hesitate.  CTRL-ALT-DEL may
  help, but sometimes even that won't work.  I boot once daily.  The
  problem happens 1-2 times per week.  Should I upgrade to 10.10 to
  solve this?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gnome (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-27.49-generic 2.6.32.26+drm33.12
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jan 10 10:13:31 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
  --- 
  Architecture: i386
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  MachineType: LENOVO 2746CTO
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-31-generic root=UUID=17572f50-ecf1-466d-a20e-0ded10d25e56 ro
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.61-generic 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
  Tags: lucid
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-generic i686
  UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape vboxusers video
  dmi.bios.date: 05/29/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 6AET58WW
  dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
  dmi.board.name: 2746CTO
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: LENOVO 6AET58WW
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: LENOVO 6AET58WW
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6AET58WW:bd05/29/2009:svnLENOVO:pn2746CTO:pvrThinkPadSL500:rvnLENOVO:rn2746CTO:rvrLENOVO6AET58WW:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrLENOVO6AET58WW:
  dmi.product.name: 2746CTO
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad SL500
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO