I am seeing this problem also on Tumbleweed as of now running on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570S CPU: > sudo journalctl -x -b | grep plymouth -- Subject: Unit plymouth-start.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-start.service has begun starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-start.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-start.service has finished starting up. -- Subject: Unit systemd-ask-password-plymouth.path has finished start-up -- Unit systemd-ask-password-plymouth.path has finished starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-switch-root.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-switch-root.service has begun starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-switch-root.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-switch-root.service has finished starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-read-write.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-read-write.service has begun starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished starting up. Jun 10 09:30:40 linux-d7n9 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 273 (plymouthd). Jun 10 09:30:40 linux-d7n9 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT Jun 10 09:30:40 linux-d7n9 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Unit entered failed state. Jun 10 09:30:40 linux-d7n9 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. Jun 10 09:30:40 linux-d7n9 systemd-coredump[1330]: Process 273 (plymouthd) of user 0 dumped core. -- Subject: Process 273 (plymouthd) dumped core -- Process 273 (plymouthd) crashed and dumped core. See also https://forums.opensuse.org/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=522940