[Bug 1102499] Re: Cannot see 'bootdegraded' question

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Iain,

> I'm not sure which of plymouth, initramfs-tools or mdadm
> is responsible here.

The answer is mdadm.  Plymouth is a boot-time multiplexer; it will not
*always* be present in the initramfs, but *when* it is present, it owns
the console and other packages need to interface with it if they need to
talk to the user.  In some cases, such as initramfs-tools' own rescue
shell handling, this interfacing consists of calling 'plymouth quit' and
restoring the console; in other cases, such as cryptsetup or mdadm, the
correct behavior is to use plymouth itself for prompting.

Dmitrijs, could you please take a look at fixing the mdadm initramfs
script to use plymouth when present?

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

** Changed in: mdadm (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: mdadm (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dmitrijs Ledkovs (xnox)

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: mdadm (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  Cannot see 'bootdegraded' question

Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “mdadm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I'm not sure which of plymouth, initramfs-tools or mdadm is
  responsible here.

  I just had a disk in my mirrored md array fail. I wanted to boot the
  system anyway. The prompt from mdadm in initramfs was obscured behind
  plymouth so I didn't find it except when I mashed escape out of
  frustration. (It then wouldn't accept my input, but that's bug
  #1095156).

  This is the same symptoms as bug #628400 but that fix is still in
  place so some other area has probably regressed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-1.5-generic 3.8.0-rc4
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-1-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jan 21 16:36:25 2013
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-07 (105 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121007)
  MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-1-generic root=UUID=980689ca-e7d9-4a99-8230-33b8b6e917cd ro quiet splash
  ProcFB:
   
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-1-generic root=UUID=980689ca-e7d9-4a99-8230-33b8b6e917cd ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 08/17/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 1201
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: P8Z77-V LX
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1201:bd08/17/2012:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnP8Z77-VLX:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: System Product Name
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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