LP#0: Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote on 2010-01-18:

Binary package hint: plymouth

When using the ask-question command, I'm not seeing anything output on the screen for the text of the question being asked nor a box for the text i'm currently typing.

The command I used is:
sudo plymouth ask-question --prompt="Do you believe in magic?"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 19 09:06:13 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100105)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Package: plymouth 0.8.0~-7
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic
SourcePackage: plymouth
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686

LP#1: Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote on 2010-01-18:

Attachments:

• Screenshot-1.png
• Dependencies.txt

LP#2: Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2010-01-23:

This is because the ubuntu-logo theme implements the display_password callback, but not the display_question callback.

LP#3: Markus Waas (mail-gorgos) wrote on 2011-01-29:

I implemented the display_question callback. Also I increased the distance between the bullets when asked for a password (was a little too close). Just download the file and replace /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.script

Attachments:

• implemented question callback

LP#4: Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-04-10:

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LP#5: Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote on 2013-02-13:

I need to use display_question callback by default in the mdadm package for quering boot degraded question.

LP#6: Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-02-14:

This bug was fixed in the package plymouth - 0.8.8-0ubuntu6

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plymouth (0.8.8-0ubuntu6) raring; urgency=low

[ Markus Waas ]

• Implement display_question callback for ask-question command.
  (LP: #509384)
  -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:56:49 +0000

LP#7: Naftoli Gugenheim (naftoligug) wrote on 2013-11-27:

Am I correct that this page needs to updated: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Plymouth to indicate that ask-question works.

LP#8: Emilio (turl) wrote on 2018-11-15:

This also affects plymouth-theme-xubuntu-logo, ask-question shows nothing when using it.

LP#9: Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote on 2019-11-03:

In case somebody wants to provide a patch for the plymouth-theme-xubuntu-logo theme in the xubuntu-artwork, I'd be happy to test and merge it. I took a look for a few minutes today, but couldn't get it to work.