Ubuntu
plymouth package

  1. Bug #770371
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 770371

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: Splash screen in text mode at boot up

> When booting with the options `quiet splash` options removed,
> and `nosplash break=top` added (drops to a shell before
> running local-top scripts like plymouth), I checked some stuff:
> - cat /proc/modules: no modules seems to be loaded
> - ls -l /dev/dri/card0: missing AHA! PROBLEM FOUND!

Except that when you boot with 'break=top', you're interrupting the boot before udev runs, and it's udev that loads the modules and creates /dev/dri/card0; so that doesn't really tell us what's happening.

Could you instead try adding a 'udevadm settle' command to /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/plymouth before the call to plymouthd, and see if that's enough to do the job without adding a manual 'modprobe'? The 'framebuffer' script should be enough to ensure this on its own, but maybe it isn't for some reason.