Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: plymouth
Plymouth message and password prompts do not work with
libcairo2_1.10.2-2ubuntu1 or later, using plymouth_0.8.2-2ubuntu14.
Text is not rendered when booting, but will render from plymouth-x11.
If initramfs made with libcairo2_1.10.2-2ubuntu1 is used to boot a root
partition with an older version of libcairo, txt renddering begins when
that root partition is mounted. If initramfs is made with older version
(even though libcairo does NOT call update-initramfs), then text is
renderd normally.
This is when using a custom splash theme based on the ubuntu-logo theme
script and using the same code from that script to render text. I use a
consistant background image from grub to plymouth to desktop, a modified
password prompt window, and modified progress bullets.
Finding this bug required rolling back all the Feb 8 updates to Ubuntu
Natty, then reinstalling them one at a time until the problem was found.
I do not know for sure whether this should be considered a bug in
plymouth or in libcairo, as I do not know whether an update in libcairo
now requires an update in Plymouth or there is a bug in libcairo like
what happened with gcc and plymouth.
** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
No Plymouth message or password prompts w libcairo2_1.10.2-2ubuntu1
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