When booting the silent splash goes blank when a certain service is loaded, except for the progress bar. Going to the verbose screen and back 'fixes' it (complete screen redraw probably) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. wait till the UTF-8 and/or terminal-fonts services kicks in Special: probably you need to have an UTF-8 enabled system. Actual Results: The complete screen turns black except for the progress-bar Expected Results: Continued silent splash Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11.7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 3 2005, 04:32:06)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.9.4, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/gentoo/ gentoo.nedlinux.nl/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cap cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt cups curl directfb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozilla moznomail mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
What version of splashutils are you running? If you're using 1.1.9.4, please read http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/troubleshooting.php#black and make sure the tty:x option on your kernel command line is set correctly or is not set at all (in which case, a tty will be selected automatically by the splash scripts). If you're using splashutils < 1.1.9.4, please upgrade.
That part wasn't there the last time I checked. I have splashutils-1.1.9.4. * emerge splashutils with the kdgraphics USE flag: Tried that, doesn't change anything. * adjust the RC_TTY_NUMBER variable in /etc/conf.d/rc: That is something that I do not want to change. That is because no matter what I config in /etc/conf.d/splash the tty's after the setting in /etc/conf.rc don't get a splashscreen when booting. It strangely DOES work when I restart the splash service after booting. * manually set the silent splash tty via the tty:n kernel command line splash option: Already had that: kernel=(hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.11.7 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr splash=silent,tty:8,theme:default quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
What's your RC_TTY_NUMBER setting?
Right now it is 12. Before I changed it from 11, the splash wouldn't show up on TTY12. I tried various other things in that config file (conf.d/splash), but nothing did the trick in there.
Well then, in this case your tty:8 setting on the kernel command line seems to be causing the problem by forcing the silent splash to run on tty8. Please remove the setting (silent splash will be automatically started on tty13) or change it to tty:13.
Removing the tty:N part did it.
Hi Michal, I had the same problem (silent splash screen suddenly gets all black at one point during the boot). I followed your advice and upgraded to 1.1.9.6-r1. The system now boots without problems, however now I don't have any text, icons and progressbar anymore. Is this a known problem? Do you want me to create a new bugreport for this?
