Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: upstart
*) What I'm seeing:
Whenever X fails to start I'm stuck at the Plymouth splash screen
instead of getting a console login prompt. At that time the system seems
to only react to sysrqs (I cannot blindly log in). However, I am able to
remotely connect, start plymouthd (which isn't running anymore at that
point), and run 'plymouth --hide-splash', which will "resurrect" the
system: I'm at VT7, can switch to VT1, log in, fix the problem, and
restart GDM.
To provoke the X fail, I just need to change the device driver in
xorg.conf to something bogus.
*) What I expect to see:
If X fails to start I'd like to get a console login prompt rather than
having to reboot (without "splash" or in single user mode) to fix
whatever is causing the problem.
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I'm using Plymouth with a framebuffer ("FRAMEBUFFER=y") with a Nvidia
6600 GT (and usually Nvidia's BLOB).
$ cat /proc/fb
0 VESA VGA
Daemon.log (booted with "--debug") attached.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: upstart 0.6.6-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 1 15:11:56 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
** Affects: upstart (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick ubuntu-une
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Stuck splash screen instead of console login prompt if X fails to start
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628083
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