[Bug 628083] Re: Stuck splash screen instead of console login prompt if X fails to start

[Hernando Torque]

I cannot reproduce this with Ubuntu 12.04, as X now seems to use some
kind of auto-configuration with vesa as fallback (which will let me log
into Unity 2D).

** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Stuck splash screen instead of console login prompt if X fails to
  start

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  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.

  ---

  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

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