On 19 May 2011, at 22:12, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Tim, > > When you say plymouth shows a splash screen, what exactly do you see? > plymouth will *run* unconditionally on boot, because it's needed to > broker boot-time console I/O; but on a server there should be no > graphical boot splash support *installed* by default, and booting > without 'splash' on the commandline should cause no splash screen to be > displayed - only the details plugin (plaintext output). > > The initramfs-tools script should also not be used by default; there are > only a limited number of cases in which this script will be installed in > the initramfs at all (see the initramfs hook script for details). > > Finally, the problematic script you mention, /etc/rcS.d/S05keymap.sh, is > not part of the standard 10.04 LTS install. This seems to be provided > by a 'console-common' package in universe. Do you know why you have > that package installed - pulled in as a dependency, carried over as part > of an upgrade from a previous release?
Hi Steve, you set me to thinking, and I think I now know what's going on. I noticed this when trying to use FAI to install Ubuntu servers. It looks like my FAI tried to install ubuntu-minimal, which despite its name appears to include some stuff targeted at the desktop version. Mea culpa. Nevertheless, there does seem to be a conflict between this console- common script and plymouth's splash screen. It's probably really a bug with the console tools rather than plymouth. There are several similar bug reports around. For example, there's a fairly long standing bug report in Debian which no-one's done anything about: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500831 which I suspect is related. Sorry for wasting your time with this one, Steve - feel free to reassign to the console stuff as a normal priority bug if you wish. And thanks for pointing me to what I'd done wrong... Tim ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #500831 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500831 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785242 Title: plymouth always shows a splash screen regardless of whether 'splash' is on the command line -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
