Bug 470468

Summary: Plymouth keeps running if X fails to start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: craig.beal, jrb, rstrode
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Description Martin Klapetek 2008-11-07 11:17:48 UTC
Description of problem:
When I have some errors in xorg.conf because of which the X won't start, the plymouth won't shut down (nor even notifies the user) and just keeps running forever with progressbar at 100% and active animations.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.4.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make some mess in xorg.conf so the X won't start
2. Restart computer with plymouth enabled (vga=... kernel param)
  
Actual results:
Plymouth just keeps running forever, progressbar stops at 100%, animations are animating and nothing else is happening

Expected results:
Somehow notify the user, that the X failed to start, either show him the X log, or switch to console login or anything else...

Additional info:
I'm using Fedora 10 Preview

Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2008-11-07 16:33:51 UTC
I've made a small mistake in the problem description, actually the animations do not go on forever, they stop when the progress bar reaches its end.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-11-11 16:10:38 UTC
plymouth quits before X tries to start.  If plymouth is still animating then it means upstart never tried to start X.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-11-11 16:12:20 UTC
I'm thinking you're two problems are related, so I'm going to dupe this one to the other one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 470471 ***

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-11-11 17:19:37 UTC
reopening because of bug 470471 comment 11

Comment 5 Craig Beal 2008-11-12 18:54:21 UTC
I think I have the same or a related bug.  I'm running a dual-core dell pentium D with an ATI video card (R300 I believe).  I used the netinstall disk to upgrade a working F9 install to F10 preview.  Plymouth works AOK out of the box, but stalls at 100% progressbar.  The animations stop and the system is hung.  If I pass 'nomodeset', it drops into X with gdm. However, rendering of text is messed up once in. Portions of text in a variety of applications (terminal, web browser, etc.) just disappear.  I assumed that this was because of a problem with the way the graphics card is being initialized, but I realized it could be something else too.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:57:42 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 7 Marc Schwartz 2008-12-09 15:47:42 UTC
Not sure if this is related, but noted this behavior with today's kernel update.

I have an nVidia GPU and I use the nVidia installer, rather than the Livna/RPMFusion RPMs.

Typically, when booting to a new kernel, X will of course fail, until the nVidia driver is installed.

In such a case, the graphical boot process would "gracefully" fail and leave me at a text mode console, where I could login as root, re-install the nVidia driver and then run 'init 5' to get back into X.

After today's kernel update, Plymouth seems to just leave me at a black screen after X fails to start.  I can type letters at the screen, but to no avail. There is no login prompt, etc.

If this behavior is not related, let me know and I will file a separate bug.

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Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:46:26 UTC
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