Framebuffers, plymouth, upstart and server installs.

[Bouchard Louis]

Hello,

Le 08/01/2013 22:57, James Hunt a écrit :
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>>> The worst one here is the fact that during bootup fsck's, there is no
>>> longer any progress bar showing status.  No big deal for a small
>>> single disk system but If your server has a multi-terabyte drive
>>> array, fscks can take hours to complete
> Can you provide more details on this? Plymouth should display fsck progress
> which are passed to it via mountall. There is even a special "fsck" message in
> the Ubuntu theme to handle displaying such data [1]. If this is no longer
> working for your particular scenario, please raise a bug so we can look at it.
> 

I've been puzzled by this thread for a while.  I'm booting Ubuntu
servers all day long (mostly in VMs nowaday) and all I see is the stream
of console messages up to the boot prompt.  Here is a small capture of
one Precise server boot :

http://people.canonical.com/~lbouchard/precise_server_boot.ogv

I vaguely remember a few releases back having to sometimes remove the
"quiet splash" from the boot parameters, but that might only be for
desktop debugging. So am I completely beside the point here or the boot
messages are indeed there ?

Kind regards,

...Louis



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Louis Bouchard
Backline Support Analyst
Canonical Ltd
Ubuntu support: http://landscape.canonical.com