[Bug 1308723] Re: ubuntu-logo theme rendered incorrectly with recent grub, instead of full-screen purple, it's a purple frame around black rectangle

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 3 December 2014 at 06:30, Yu Ning <ning.yu at canonical.com> wrote:
> I verified on my trusty box, by upgrading below packages to
> 0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1:
>
> libplymouth2
> plymouth
> plymouth-label
> plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo
> plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
>
> the issue still can be reproduced until I manually execute "update-
> grub". During the upgrade only update-initramfs is executed, but not
> update-grub.
>
> Should we treat this is as verification-done? Or verification-failed?
>

That's verification-done. Plymouth themes must not trigger grub
update, however they do provide a snippet that grub integrates into
it's theming at next convenient update-grub time at which point the
visual bug is resolved. I'll update test instructions.


-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.


** Description changed:

  SRU Justification:
  [Impact]
- When booting ubuntu-desktop you'll see a black rectangle instead of an awesome ubuntu logo.
+ When booting ubuntu-desktop you'll see a black rectangle instead of fully purple screen as early as possible.
  [Test Case]
- Boot ubuntu desktop.
+ 1. install update
+ 2. run $ sudo update-grub
+ 3. Reboot
  [Regression Potential]
  Minor change to background_color to fix this issue.
  
  --
  
  if background_color 44,0,30; then
    clear
  fi
  
  is what ubuntu-logo plymouth theme snippet injects into grub.cfg, this
  generates a purple one character frame whilst the center is black. It
  used to be all purple. i mean aubergine.

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Title:
  ubuntu-logo theme rendered incorrectly with recent grub, instead of
  full-screen purple, it's a purple frame around black rectangle

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in grub2 source package in Trusty:
  Invalid
Status in plymouth source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in grub2 source package in Utopic:
  Confirmed
Status in plymouth source package in Utopic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  SRU Justification:
  [Impact]
  When booting ubuntu-desktop you'll see a black rectangle instead of fully purple screen as early as possible.
  [Test Case]
  1. install update
  2. run $ sudo update-grub
  3. Reboot
  [Regression Potential]
  Minor change to background_color to fix this issue.

  --

  if background_color 44,0,30; then
    clear
  fi

  is what ubuntu-logo plymouth theme snippet injects into grub.cfg, this
  generates a purple one character frame whilst the center is black. It
  used to be all purple. i mean aubergine.

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