Bug 699801

Summary: plymouth does not release active terminal
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: ajax, fedora, mcepl, petter, rstrode, xgl-maint
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Description Paolo Bonzini 2011-04-26 16:15:21 UTC
Description of problem:
Booting with graphical boot I get a black screen.  Booting with text boot works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.14.0-5.fc15.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.1-13.fc15.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.10.1-13.fc15.x86_64
libdrm-2.4.25-3.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
100% on this machine

/var/log/Xorg.1.log ends at:

[    40.350] (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
        i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
        E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM, Pineview G,
        965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, GM45,
        4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43, B43, Clarkdale, Arrandale,
        Sandybridge, Sandybridge, Sandybridge, Sandybridge, Sandybridge,
        Sandybridge, Sandybridge
[    40.351] (--) using VT number 7

The next line (from the Xorg.1.log file without rhgb---up to this point the files are perfectly identical except for timestamps!) should have been

[    40.357] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so

Additional info:
libdrm-2.4.25-1.fc15.x86_64 to libdrm-2.4.25-3.fc16.x86_64 should only be packaging changes.

I'm not sure where the bug is (server or drivers).  I'll try getting a backtrace of Xorg.

Comment 1 Paolo Bonzini 2011-04-26 16:16:17 UTC
Booting with graphical boot, and pressing Esc mid-boot to bail to text screen, also works.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2011-04-26 23:29:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Booting with graphical boot, and pressing Esc mid-boot to bail to text screen,
> also works.

OK, so this is problem just in plymouth? I.e., when you remove "rhgb quiet" from the kernel command line, everything works correctly and you get gdm login (or X via startx if you are one of those)?

Comment 3 Paolo Bonzini 2011-04-27 06:49:15 UTC
Yes, I get gdm login.  I think if I used startx there wouldn't be a problem because plymouth would relinquish control of the display to let me see the login prompt.  So it might be plymouth indeed.

Comment 4 Paolo Bonzini 2011-04-27 07:36:14 UTC
Here is where the X server is stuck:

63	switch_to(int vt, const char *from)
64	{
65	    if (ioctl(xf86Info.consoleFd, VT_ACTIVATE, vt) < 0)
66	        FatalError("%s: VT_ACTIVATE failed: %s\n", from, strerror(errno));
67	
68	    if (ioctl(xf86Info.consoleFd, VT_WAITACTIVE, vt) < 0)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

69	        FatalError("%s: VT_WAITACTIVE failed: %s\n", from, strerror(errno));
70	}

Changing component to plymouth.

Version of plymouth installed (and "dracut -f" done):
plymouth-0.8.4-0.20110330.1.fc15.x86_64

Comment 5 Petter Häggholm 2011-09-05 05:52:02 UTC
Any updates on this? The bug is still alive and kicking: At least I think it is the same one: If I run a graphical boot process, I get a nice graphical interface until gdm is supposed to start, at which point I get a black screen and a waiting cursor; if I exit the graphical boot interface (Plymouth?), gdm starts normally and properly.

Let me know if any debug info I can provide would be any use.

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