[Bug 1838725] Re: Plymouth fails to display graphical splash screens on some machines, shows text mode dots animation instead.

Daniel van Vugt daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com
Tue Mar 24 10:22:47 UTC 2020


I'm not sure comment #6 is the same bug. Here's what one of my affected
ThinkPads does. Plymouth can't find working graphics (race condition
with something??) and reverts to text mode:

00:00:07.541 ply-device-manager.c:917:create_devices_from_udev             : Timeout elapsed, looking for devices from udev
00:00:07.541 ply-device-manager.c:331:create_devices_for_subsystem         : creating objects for drm devices
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-DP-1
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-DP-2
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-HDMI-A-1
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-HDMI-A-2
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-eDP-1
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/renderD128
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:331:create_devices_for_subsystem         : creating objects for frame buffer devices
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/graphics/fb0
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:351:create_devices_for_subsystem         : found device /sys/devices/virtual/graphics/fbcon
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:374:create_devices_for_subsystem         : it's not initialized
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:925:create_devices_from_udev             : Creating non-graphical devices, since there's no suitable graphics hardware
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:786:create_devices_for_terminal_and_rende: creating devices for  (renderer type: 4294967295) (terminal: /dev/tty1)
00:00:07.542 main.c:1001:on_keyboard_added                                 : listening for keystrokes
00:00:07.542 main.c:1005:on_keyboard_added                                 : listening for escape
00:00:07.542 main.c:1009:on_keyboard_added                                 : listening for backspace
00:00:07.542 main.c:1013:on_keyboard_added                                 : listening for enter
00:00:07.542 ply-terminal.c:637:ply_terminal_open                          : trying to open terminal '/dev/tty1'
00:00:07.542 ply-terminal.c:430:ply_terminal_refresh_geometry              : looking up terminal text geometry
00:00:07.542 ply-terminal.c:442:ply_terminal_refresh_geometry              : terminal is now 240x67 text cells
00:00:07.542 ply-terminal.c:480:get_active_vt                              : Remembering that initial vt is 7
00:00:07.542 ply-device-manager.c:759:create_text_displays_for_terminal    : adding text display for terminal /dev/tty1

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Title:
  Plymouth fails to display graphical splash screens on some machines,
  shows text mode dots animation instead.

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Plymouth often (sometimes) fails to display graphical splash screens
  on some machines, and shows text mode dots animation instead.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
  Package: plymouth 0.9.4git20190712-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.2.0-8.9-generic 5.2.0
  Uname: Linux 5.2.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
  Date: Fri Aug  2 11:59:20 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-07-09 (23 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Alpha amd64 (20190709)
  MachineType: LENOVO 20KGS4XY00
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.2.0-8-generic root=UUID=2a8c12a3-4d85-478a-8b6c-b31fe3dceae1 ro quiet splash psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 vt.handoff=7
  ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.2.0-8-generic root=UUID=2a8c12a3-4d85-478a-8b6c-b31fe3dceae1 ro quiet splash psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 11/08/2018
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: N23ET59W (1.34 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 20KGS4XY00
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: SDK0J40697 WIN
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: None
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN23ET59W(1.34):bd11/08/2018:svnLENOVO:pn20KGS4XY00:pvrThinkPadX1Carbon6th:rvnLENOVO:rn20KGS4XY00:rvrSDK0J40697WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone:
  dmi.product.family: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.product.name: 20KGS4XY00
  dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_MT_20KG_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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