OK, I also thought that at first. But when I tried with the "fix", the
purple frame disappeared:

- With timeout=0, the screen was purely black (good)
- With timeout>0, the background was purple under the menu (good)

I'll check again.


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@canonical.com
> wrote:

> I don't think this is a bug; the effect of clearing the screen after
> successfully setting the background_color should, AIUI, be precisely to
> refresh the screen with the background color (as opposed to only using
> the background color when drawing more text to the screen).  But
> assigning to Colin, who (as grub maintainer and author of the code in
> question) will be able to answer more authoritatively.
>
> ** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
>      Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)
>
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>
> Title:
>   Grub theme: black screen with purple border
>
> Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   There's a minor typo on the grub theme which produces a black screen
>   with purple border after exiting the grub menu (or on starting
>   Plymouth). I understand that there's a `!` (negation) missing before
>   the background_color invokation:
>
>   $ cat /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.grub
>     if background_color 44,0,30; then
>         clear
>     fi
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
>   Package: plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu15
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-16.36-generic 3.13.5
>   Uname: Linux 3.13.0-16-generic i686
>   ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
>   Architecture: i386
>   Date: Sat Mar  8 12:09:15 2014
>   DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-14 (53 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140113)
>   MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq nx7400 (GF451LA#ABM)
>   PccardctlIdent:
>    Socket 0:
>      no product info available
>   PccardctlStatus:
>    Socket 0:
>      no card
>   ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-16-generic
> root=UUID=96147aaf-4d58-4669-83a5-18e2f94dbd65 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>   ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
>   ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-16-generic
> root=UUID=96147aaf-4d58-4669-83a5-18e2f94dbd65 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>   SourcePackage: plymouth
>   TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   dmi.bios.date: 12/18/2006
>   dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>   dmi.bios.version: 68YGU Ver. F.0A
>   dmi.board.name: 30A2
>   dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>   dmi.board.version: KBC Version 40.17
>   dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU7111JLR
>   dmi.chassis.type: 10
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>   dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68YGUVer.F.0A:bd12/18/2006:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqnx7400(GF451LA#ABM):pvrF.0A:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30A2:rvrKBCVersion40.17:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
>   dmi.product.name: HP Compaq nx7400 (GF451LA#ABM)
>   dmi.product.version: F.0A
>   dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>
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