[Bug 850895] Re: [nouveaufb] Plymouth refuses to show on boot, only at shutdown (mountall error messages)

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 05:37:29AM -0000, WarriorIng64 wrote:
> Okay, I've altered the following lines in my /etc/default/grub:

> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash plymouth:debug=file:/var/log
> /plymouth-debug.log plymouth:force-drm"

> GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

> (I only use one monitor in my setup, btw, so I figured that option would
> be safe to add.)

> And lo and behold, it works! This is the first time I've seen my grub
> menu and Plymouth during boot in quite a long time, albeit in a  low
> resolution. It's even centered onscreen, too! I guess this means I can
> finally boot my Natty partition again (although Oneiric's quite nice and
> I plan on sticking with that).

Great! :)  Glad to see we're making progress.

> Please let me know if there's anything else you want me to do yet to
> help get this bug actually fixed.

Is plymouth also low resolution, or just grub?  The goal is to have plymouth
using best native resolution, *not* 640x480, though the nouveau driver may
just be accepting whatever resolution grub sets up for it.

Does plymouth show up when using *just* plymouth:force-drm, without also
setting GRUB_GFXMODE?

Can you attach the plymouth debug log resulting from booting with
plymouth:force-drm?

Now that you're able to see grub, could you hit 'c' to get a console, grab
out the list of available modes with the 'vbeinfo' command, and post the
list here (screenshot with a camera may be easiest)?  Then you can try
stepping through the resolutions one by one with GRUB_GFXMODE to see which
gives the best results on your monitor.

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Title:
  [nouveaufb] Plymouth refuses to show on boot, only at shutdown
  (mountall error messages)

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On my system, Plymouth shows properly on shutdown, but at boot I get a
  blank screen and an error from my monitor saying "No Signal", followed
  usually by some terminal text mentioning something like "mountall:
  Plymouth command failed".

  Then the Unity greeter comes up and everything after that runs just
  fine. It'd still be nice to see the boot splash, though.

  I've been getting this problem since I installed the 9/9/2011 daily
  build of Oneiric, but didn't get around to reporting it until today
  for some reason. Not sure if it's related to the fact that I cannot
  get grub to display either, despite this being a dual-boot between
  Oneiric and Natty, but I'll file that separately.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 15 09:06:32 2011
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110909)
  MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. M61PME-S2P
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=382b2fb7-eeaf-4a92-8739-abcba4226958 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=382b2fb7-eeaf-4a92-8739-abcba4226958 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (2 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 11/03/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: F6
  dmi.board.name: M61PME-S2P
  dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.board.version: x.x
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF6:bd11/03/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnM61PME-S2P:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnM61PME-S2P:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: M61PME-S2P
  dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

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