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plymouth package

boot in xenial shows black screen instead of plymouth logo / encryption prompt

Bug #1546393 reported by Joe Barnett
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
plymouth (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
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Bug Description

After updating to xenial, I see nothing but a black screen after EFI boot successfully. I can blindly type my disk encryption password to get the system to evenutally boot to a GDM prompt, but there's no visual feedback before that point. At first I thought it was because the initrd wasn't created properly on upgrade from wily (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1546342), but forcing it to regenerate by apt-get install --reinstalling the kernel didn't fix it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-4.19-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Feb 16 22:06:49 2016
DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo.plymouth
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-21 (179 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150819)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro11,4
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-4-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--gnome--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-4-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--gnome--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-gnome-text/ubuntu-gnome-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-02-16 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/05/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP114.88Z.0172.B04.1506051511
dmi.board.name: Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro11,4
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP114.88Z.0172.B04.1506051511:bd06/05/2015:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro11,4:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-06F11FD93F0323C5:rvrMacBookPro11,4:cvnAppleInc.:ct9:cvrMac-06F11FD93F0323C5:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro11,4
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.

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Joe Barnett (thejoe) wrote :
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Francisco Angel Javier Prieto (fajprieto) wrote :

I have the same problem.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Francisco Angel Javier Prieto (fajprieto) wrote :

In my case this paths does not exist:/lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo and this file /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth either.

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Francisco Angel Javier Prieto (fajprieto) wrote :

Well I test with this...

1. sudo mkdir /lib/plymouth/themes/simple

2. Find a wallpaper you like and copy it to /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/wallpaper.png (must be a png!)

2. sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.plymouth and paste the following:

[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Simple
Description=Wallpaper only
ModuleName=script

[script]
ImageDir=/lib/plymouth/themes/simple
ScriptFile=/lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.script

3. sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.script and paste the following:

wallpaper_image = Image(“wallpaper.png”);
screen_width = Window.GetWidth();
screen_height = Window.GetHeight();
resized_wallpaper_image = wallpaper_image.Scale(screen_width,screen_height);
wallpaper_sprite = Sprite(resized_wallpaper_image);
wallpaper_sprite.SetZ(-100);

4. sudo update-alternatives --install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.plymouth 100

5. sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth (select simple from the list)

6. sudo update-initramfs -u

But in this point Fail with this error

plymouth module (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth//.so) missing, skipping that theme.

If I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure Plymouth Fail with the same error.

Then I found the paths in /usr/share/plymouth/themes so I replace point 4 with

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth 200

At point 5 I select /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth 200 modo manual

I execute point 6 and reboot... I'm testing now.

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Francisco Angel Javier Prieto (fajprieto) wrote :

Well I test with this...

1. sudo mkdir /lib/plymouth/themes/simple

2. Find a wallpaper you like and copy it to /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/wallpaper.png (must be a png!)

2. sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.plymouth and paste the following:

[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Simple
Description=Wallpaper only
ModuleName=script

[script]
ImageDir=/lib/plymouth/themes/simple
ScriptFile=/lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.script

3. sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.script and paste the following:

wallpaper_image = Image(“wallpaper.png”);
screen_width = Window.GetWidth();
screen_height = Window.GetHeight();
resized_wallpaper_image = wallpaper_image.Scale(screen_width,screen_height);
wallpaper_sprite = Sprite(resized_wallpaper_image);
wallpaper_sprite.SetZ(-100);

4. sudo update-alternatives --install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.plymouth 100

5. sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth (select simple from the list)

6. sudo update-initramfs -u

But in this point Fail with this error

plymouth module (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth//.so) missing, skipping that theme.

If I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure Plymouth Fail with the same error.

Then I found the paths in /usr/share/plymouth/themes so I replace point 4 with

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth 200

At point 5 I select /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth 200 modo manual

I execute point 6 and reboot... I'm testing now.

But not work...

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Francisco Angel Javier Prieto (fajprieto) wrote :

Well, I executed Grub Customizer.
I'm check Custom Resolution and select 1024x768x24 and then Save.
If I reboot Show up the prompt, but the keyboard usb hang.
If I turn off and turn on show up the menu and the prompt in text mode. This is my grub now:
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT="0"
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET="true"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="10"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL="console"

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE="1024x768x24"

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="false"

#export GRUB_MENU_PICTURE="/usr/share/plymouth/ubuntu-logo.png"

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Francisco Angel Javier Prieto (fajprieto) wrote :

well, I have a new problem, when I am playing in Facebook, after five minutes the pc turn off and later, when I turn on apear the following error "no ums support in radeon module".
I was searching this new problem in Google and discover that the solution of this this problem to change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset quiet splash" with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" in GRUB.
But now the problem of black screen return.

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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