Bug 527299

Summary:	plymouthd: ply-keyboard.c:447:ply_keyboard_add_input_handler: Assertion `keyboard !=((void*)0)' failed. on firstboot's --hide-splash
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Component:	plymouth	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	aalam, awilliam, dcantrell, fedora, krh, pablomg+fedora, petersen, robert, rstrode, wwoods, xgl-maint
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	526842	Environment:
Last Closed:	2009-10-07 11:51:47 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-10-05 20:11:26 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #526842 +++

Description of problem:
After Installation, firstboot is not running(1Oct2009 rawhide),


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firstboot-1.109-1.fc12
initscripts-8.99-1
anaconda-12.32-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. do installation GUI
2. reboot
3.
  
Actual results:
firstboot was not running

Expected results:
Can be

Additional info:

--- Additional comment from aalam on 2009-10-01 22:50:01 EDT ---

some error on VT1*
--
firstboot ERROR: X Server failed to start
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File"/usr/sbin/firstboot)", line 167, in <module>
config.frontend.start()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/firstboot/xfronted.py" line 87, in start
raise RuntimeError, "X Server failed to start"
RuntimeError: X server failed to start
plymouthd: ply-keyboard.c:447:ply_keyboard_add_input_handler: Assertion `keyboard !=((void*)0)' failed.
error: unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon [FAILED]
--------


But GUI (gdm and gnome is working fine on my machine.

* this is not copy paste, (may be mistake somewhere)

--- Additional comment from aalam on 2009-10-01 23:00:49 EDT ---

runn as Root from Virtual Terminal, firstboot working

--- Additional comment from clumens on 2009-10-02 10:08:32 EDT ---

*** Bug 526856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

--- Additional comment from clumens on 2009-10-02 14:11:40 EDT ---

I believe this is due to a known Xorg VT switching crash.

--- Additional comment from wwoods on 2009-10-02 14:12:05 EDT ---

Works OK here on a KVM-based x86_64 install of the F12 Beta test compose. Same
firstboot/initscripts/anaconda version.

So it's not happening for *every* install, anyway.

--- Additional comment from robert on 2009-10-04 06:07:22 EDT ---

I get this error using rawhide nightly 20091001.15 i386

same error output as S A Alam reported

Smolt: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a06b74a6-bd35-4178-87e7-ca58c6c533b4

I did the install with use entire drive and no encryption.

--- Additional comment from rstrode on 2009-10-05 11:19:46 EDT ---

plymouthd is blowing an assertion, must be a plymouth problem.  reassigning

--- Additional comment from jkeating on 2009-10-05 15:54:57 EDT ---

Not sure this is plymouthd, at least I can successfully get a segfault from X every time I vt switch and switch back.  Is plymouth/firstboot/etc doing any vt switching?

See http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/x-radeon-vt-crash.jpg

--- Additional comment from rstrode on 2009-10-05 16:08:22 EDT ---

ah there are two bugs here, i'll clone the plymouth one off, since it's less blocker-y

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-10-05 21:16:54 UTC

this should be fixed as of 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.2

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-10-05 21:45:59 UTC

make that

0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.3

I was a little to hasty in my build and didn't apply the patch.

Comment 3 A S Alam 2009-10-06 02:24:23 UTC

I tried to use 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.3 package, but getting same error
with (plymouthd: ply-keyboard.c:447...) 
firstboot still not running.
---
1) fresh install
2) install new packages and reboot machine
3) after boot, same error and Directly GDM screen without any user
--
Is there anything wrong with my steps?

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2009-10-06 02:50:51 UTC

*** Bug 526856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2009-10-06 02:52:30 UTC

I did an en install yesterday and ja install today
and both had firstboot come up normally so worksforme.

Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-10-07 11:51:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I tried to use 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.3 package, but getting same error
> with (plymouthd: ply-keyboard.c:447...) 
> firstboot still not running.
> ---
> 1) fresh install
> 2) install new packages and reboot machine
> 3) after boot, same error and Directly GDM screen without any user
> --
> Is there anything wrong with my steps?  


After installing the packages you have to make sure plymouth gets in the initrd.

You can get that by installing a new kernel, or by running:

sudo new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod --install $(uname -r)