Comment 7 for bug 533135

I did a little more work to try and isolate this bug, i removed the nvidia proprietary driver and then unplugged the hdmi cable going to my tv. I then restarted twice and both went amazingly, the plymouth splash screen stayed up until my background image came up, first time i have seen the boot work the way it was designed. i then plugged the hdmi cable back in to the tv and restarted, wouldn't boot exactly as described in the bug report. I then unplugged the hdmi cable and tried again, this time the plymouth boot splash did not show up and i had the blinking underscore in the top left corner,but there are two differenced. It is responsive, if i press a button a symbol is typed, and the cursor is there and it moves. If i press enter it goes to the log in screen just as before (see bug 515412), i can then log in and everything works as expected.

So i think i finaly nailed down the conditions nessasary for this bug. nouveau driver with two screens plugged in.

When i get time i will try a fresh install and never plug in the tv and make sure things go well, once i have my system completely set up i will plug in the second display and I expect it will return me to a non booting/problematic computer.