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

[Jani Uusitalo]

FWIW, based on the above comments and my experience I'd lay at least
some of the blame on this on nouveau: I have two setups affected by the
Plymouth no-show, both with Nvidia graphics:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G73 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
and
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

At the same time all the other systems I have access to that run Precise
on non-Nvidia graphics (some half dozen computers, old and new) don't
manifest it, i.e. they display Plymouth's boot logo screen just fine on
every boot without any workarounds. (The Nvidias need either
FRAMEBUFFER=y or plymouth:force-drm.)

Also, on the G73, Grub menu shows at a low resolution without
GRUB_GFXMODE specified, but on the C61 it's "Out of range". It shows on
both if I specify 1280x1024 (the maximum supported by the connected
LCDs) as GRUB_GFXMODE. This too is Nvidia-specific, though I suppose the
Grub menu is outside nouveau's jurisdiction.

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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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