(In reply to andy great from comment #32) > (In reply to Robert Kaiser from comment #31) > > (In reply to t neo from comment #16) > > > In the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service > > > > FWIW, that file does not exist in my installation or in the plymouth package. > > I do have that file on my TW installation. Ugh, yes, my fault, I looked for plymouth-* when it clearly isn't. But this looks strange: > grep "pid" /usr/lib/systemd/system/*plymouth* /usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-start.service:ExecStart=/usr/sbin/plymouthd --mode=boot --pid-file=/var/run/plymouth/pid --attach-to-session /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.path:ConditionPathExists=/run/plymouth/pid /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service:ConditionPathExists=/var/run/plymouth/pid Note that the middle one, in .path, points to /run and not to /var/run as the other two...