Installing plymouth 0.9.3-3 over the distro 0.9.3-1 had no effect on this system - amd64 - either. Steps taken with dpkg for a hash-checked .deb were:
Preparing to unpack .../plymouth_0.9.3-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking plymouth (0.9.3-3) over (0.9.3-1ubuntu7) ... Setting up plymouth (0.9.3-3) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-24-generic Apt complained about some redundancies, which I deleted. After uninstalling haveged, the system hung indefinitely once more at various advices of processes waiting, depending on the 3 restarts I tried. GDM featured variously, as did utmp. Not knowing much at that level, I can only report that plymouth 0.9.3-3 doesn't fix the hang I reported upthread. Nor does it change the lack of either keyboard or usb mouse/touchpad access for at least 90s of that hang. Another symptom, just noticed because of all the restarts, is that wireless networking gets a significant delay before kicking in after the handover to Gnome - about 30s. With the 16.04 I dual boot this machine to, wireless networking is ready to go almost as soon as the UI is up. Reinstalling haveged returns the good handover to Gnome - about 20s, but wireless networking stays slow to begin its work. Note that uninstalling plymouth 0.9.3-3 returns the listing of 0.9.3-1 to the system, but a couple of the Ubuntu display dependencies needed also to be reinstalled to get back a coherent recognisable splash screen progress. Probably time for me to get familiar with using the shell at startup. That UI looks like a real curate's egg and this is a significant bug (or set of bugs maybe). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779476 Title: Boot process hangs indefinitely. Never finishes. Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in plymouth package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: After update of gdm and kernel gdm3 no longer enables graphics. What happens: ============= With and without: WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf gdm3 does not switch to graphics. In both cases I case the X process running (Xwayland or Xorg) but no vt has it. lightdm does work, but barely. It takes up to a minute to get to the login screen. What I expected to happen: ========================== gdm3 switching to graphics in ~20 after boot like pre-update. Release: ======== $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release: 18.04 $ apt-cache policy kernel-common gdm3 lightdm xorg xwayland kernel-common: Installed: (none) Candidate: 13.018+nmu1 Version table: 13.018+nmu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages gdm3: Installed: 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.3 Candidate: 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.3 Version table: *** 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.3 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.2 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 3.28.0-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages lightdm: Installed: 1.26.0-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.26.0-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1.26.0-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status xorg: Installed: 1:7.7+19ubuntu7 Candidate: 1:7.7+19ubuntu7 Version table: *** 1:7.7+19ubuntu7 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status xwayland: Installed: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4 Candidate: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4 Version table: *** 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Attaching journalctl -b. --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-27 (673 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) NonfreeKernelModules: wl Package: gdm3 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.3 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-24.26-generic 4.15.18 Tags: bionic package-from-proposed Uname: Linux 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-05 (58 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True mtime.conffile..etc.gdm3.custom.conf: 2018-06-30T11:12:29.280424 --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-27 (674 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) NonfreeKernelModules: wl Package: linux PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-24.26-generic 4.15.18 Tags: bionic package-from-proposed Uname: Linux 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-05 (58 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True modified.conffile..etc.gdm3.custom.conf: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.gdm3.custom.conf: 2018-06-30T11:12:29.280424 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1779476/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
