[Bug 431812] [NEW] i915: black screen on boot---fbcon loading (screen powers off); breaks (recovery mode), fsck, usplash, crypt password

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Binary package hint: sysvinit

I just reinstalled this box with today's karmic alpha-6 image (amd64).
Live image works fine, but after booting the installed version I see
some messages passing by, and then the screen powered off. Hard disk was
grinding, and nothing happened for ten minutes, so I eventually
rebooted. That didn't help either, so I rebooted again with
i915.modeset=0 and finally saw that fsck of /home was going on (it's
still ext3, so I suppose it's likely that the previous run just didn't
finish).

Arguably I should have gotten usplash for this case, but even if I
don't, there should be usable VTs during the boot phase, so that it's
obvious what's going on.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 526c13623eeda7bcc3936c7be57b2d29
CheckboxSystem: c8e8edcc4d15e0d55af04774be77e330
Date: Thu Sep 17 14:19:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: initscripts 2.87dsf-4ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: sysvinit
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Critical
     Assignee: Scott James Remnant (scott)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Karmic)
     Importance: Critical
     Assignee: Scott James Remnant (scott)
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug regression-potential ubuntu-boot
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i915: black screen on boot---fbcon loading (screen powers off); breaks (recovery mode), fsck, usplash, crypt password
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