The usplash package has been superseded by plymouth and has been removed
from the Ubuntu archive. Closing all related bugs.
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Invalid
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Yes, it is the splash option that must be giving the blank screen.
When I remove the splash (and quiet) option I don't get the blank
screen. However all is still not well. While I don't get the blank
screen, I don't get a proper login prompt either. I can see the output
from the startup
It sounds as if there are still messages on the tty from various startup
items, after the gettys have been launched.
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: None = usplash
Importance: Undecided = Medium
Assignee: Micah Cowan = (unassigned)
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu)
Can you positively isolate what causes a difference between black-screen
and can-get-tty? Try keeping the runlevel the same, and just modifying
one of the boot parameters at a time. I'm particularly interested in
seeing if the splash option is what caused the difference.
** Changed in: Ubuntu
I know about changing ttys with Ctrl-Alt-Fx. This is part of the
problem. It doesn't work. Only a blank screen with an underscore cursor
in the upper left corner that does nothing. No login. No commands.
Nothing. I realise that GDM is supposed to send you to a tty console.
GDM may work this way in
Thanks for the clarification.
The meaning of runlevels is very distro-specific. In Debian (or, at
least Ubuntu), Runlevels 2 through 5 are all extremely similar to one
another, differing in things like whether apache or ntp-server are
started. ?dm's run in all four of those runlevels.
Which is
I came from Red Hat and variants in which runlevel 3 doesn't start X
from init. So I was, and I know I shouldn't, assuming that Ubuntu/Debian
would be the same as far as that goes. I was editing the grub entry
before booting to start in runlevel 3 and during the editing I also
removed the splash
You can reach a console on ttys 1-6 by typing Ctrl-Alt-F1 through
-F6. X generally runs on tty 7, so you can get back there by doing
Ctrl-Alt-F7; however, when X isn't running due to config problems,
the gdm restart will, in general, automatically throw you into the tty X
will use.
I will assume
