Had a case today that the boot-process halted while the splash was on.
CTRL+ALT+Fx did NOT work and no message showed up what the problem could
be.
What do you usability-experts expect a normal user to do about such a
situation?
May I tell you?
I guess the average user willing to switch to free
BTW, the best-of-breed here is quite clearly Gentoo (you can easily see
it with the Live CD) - who manage to make the boot messages both
informative and pretty. In my view, it's much more elegant than the
animation (especially when the animation's progress bar doesn't have
100%=100%, but can go
you might need to try terminal 1 or 8, messages go to both terminals now
ctrl+alt+f1 ctrl+alt+f8
ctrl+alt+f7 to return to the terminal running X.
the following command may show you the info you want to see:
dmesg | less
sorry if this isn't helpful
regards
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So after this fix, how do you make truly verbose startup messages occur
without hitting ESC? Maybe this is a different bug, but removing the
quiet and splash parameters in karmic doesn't make things as verbose as
it should (and used to).
Hitting ESC as recently as the 9.10 RC live CD showed
** Branch linked: lp:usplash
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This bug was fixed in the package usplash - 0.5.47
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usplash (0.5.47) karmic; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Dismiss splash screen if Escape is pressed outside an INPUT* command
(LP: #195666).
[ Scott James Remnant ]
* Build on the above patch adding an ESCAPE command
the ubuntu startup manager allows splash to be disable and enable text
message boots, but I don't want them always - OK 'I' do, but I think it
is a good trouble shooting option, for modules, network, drive checks
etc, that others will not always want, but very useful when desired.
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Using the Ubuntu startup manager to disable the selection item 'boot splash'
and enable the selection item 'show text during boot' does NOT enable the esc
key access to the terminal logging startup information.
Tested with 9.04
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Allow pressing escape to see boot messages
** Summary changed:
- Be able to show consoles messages
+ Allow pressing escape to see boot messages
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Allow pressing escape to see boot messages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195666
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