Comment 46 for bug 507881

Appears to not be fixed with plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu1 and mountall 2.14.

A message is briefly displayed on the screen about a bad filesystem and a
root shell being launched.... but then the screen resolution changes, and a
root shell appears, with a blank space about the prompt. The actual message
is barely a flicker, so users are dumped into a root prompt with effectively
no explaination.

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 23:45, Launchpad Bug Tracker <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> This bug was fixed in the package mountall - 2.14
>
> ---------------
> mountall (2.14) lucid; urgency=low
>
> [ Scott James Remnant ]
> * Flush updates to Plymouth before emitting Upstart events, in case
> the event kills Plymouth. LP: #559761.
> * Don't mark a filesystem "nodev" just because it's got "none" in the
> device column; this will block the "virtual-filesystems" event which
> is the one that can't use Plymouth to prompt. LP: #507881.
> * When cancelling in-progress fsck, don't deference the NULL mount
> record. LP: #562811.
> * mountall is missing a very important line of code that increases the
> udev buffer size; without this it's possible we may miss events during
> busy periods. LP: #561390.
>
> [ Steve Langasek ]
> * If we're not marking all nodev filesystems as virtual, we need to
> at least mark our placeholder filesystem entries (type=none && dev=none)
> this way.
> -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:36:01
> +0100
>
> ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu Lucid)
> Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
>
> --
> Plymouth doesn't show messages sent before the splash screen is visible
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507881
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