[Bug 1854640] Re: Multiple issues with plymouth-theme-spinner on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen

[Rimas Kudelis]

Ah right, I guess something has changed. The first case (booting with
disk password) now acts closer to the second (booting without it),
although I haven't tested the latter recently.

The issues that remain are:

1. The Lenovo logo only appears on screen after a significant delay. If feels as if about half the booting process has already happened at that time. Before it appears, I get to stare at a completely black screen.
2. I rebooted three times in a row on Saturday, and in all cases the graphical bootup got interrupted by the text-mode experience (where the word Ubuntu and four color-changing dots are shown in plain text) for a couple of seconds just before the display manager would kick in.
3. The spinner is not shown during boot-up, only during shutdown.
4. Even at shutdown the spinner is not exactly smooth: you get a white line below it just before it disappears, and there is an approx. 1.5 second delay between it disappearing and the computer rebooting.

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Title:
  Multiple issues with plymouth-theme-spinner on Lenovo Thinkpad X1
  Carbon 6th gen

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have multiple issues with plymouth-theme-spinner on my 6th
  generation X1 Carbon. I'll try listing them here.

  1. If I enable hard disk password in BIOS, neither Lenovo logo, nor
  the spinner is shown during bootup. Instead, I just get the black
  screen. I believe I do get the full experience with the logo and the
  spinner during shutdown though.

  2. When the hard disk password is disabled, I get the red Lenovo logo
  during bootup, but not the spinner. (I guess the spinner is the common
  issue between this and the first case).

  3. In both cases, the graphical bootup gets interrupted by the text-mode experience (where the word Ubuntu and four color-changing dots are shown in plain text) just before the display manager kicks in.
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  ProblemType: Bug
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6
  Architecture: amd64
  BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/bgrt/bgrt.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-25 (118 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
  MachineType: LENOVO 20KHA003CD
  Package: plymouth 0.9.4git20190712-0ubuntu4.1
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-42-generic root=UUID=4d5cbc1f-66ec-4286-a31f-bd3d77498556 ro quiet splash cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 vt.handoff=7
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-42-generic root=UUID=4d5cbc1f-66ec-4286-a31f-bd3d77498556 ro quiet splash cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 vt.handoff=7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-42.34-generic 5.3.18
  Tags:  eoan
  TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-42-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip docker lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
  _MarkForUpload: True
  dmi.bios.date: 02/20/2020
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: N23ET71W (1.46 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 20KHA003CD
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: SDK0L77769 WIN
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: None
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN23ET71W(1.46):bd02/20/2020:svnLENOVO:pn20KHA003CD:pvrThinkPadX1Carbon6th:rvnLENOVO:rn20KHA003CD:rvrSDK0L77769WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone:
  dmi.product.family: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.product.name: 20KHA003CD
  dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_MT_20KH_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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