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

[Sebastien Bacher]

Thanks Daniel, the corresponding upstream commit is
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/commit/75204a251

The description indeed matches what is described on this bug

'The amdgpu driver needs up to 5 seconds to initialize / boot some
AMD GPUs, which makes our 5 second timeout much too close to the actual
needed time, leading to systems where sometimes the boot is fine and the
next boot we fallback to a text based splash because we won the race from
the GPU probe code.

This commit bumps the default DeviceTimeout to 8 seconds giving us a
decent marging here without making it overly long.'

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

Status in Plymouth:
  Unknown
Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

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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