Comment # 17 on bug 1013200 from Max Staudt

(In reply to Egbert Eich from comment #13)
> It could be that the crashing plymouthd left the vt hogged.
> Maybe booting without plymouth (plymouth.enable=0 on the command line) helps
> and the sddm greeter screen is shown.
> 
> AFAIR, Max knows all the ins and outs of plymouth hogging VTs.


This is clearly not the issue here. Patrick did the right thing: He uninstalled
Plymouth *and* rebuilt rhe initrd. After this step, Plymouth can no longer hog
the VT.