On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 08:17:47PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
There is old bug (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780516) about conflict between plymouth and systemd-vconsole-setup. I just tested and this bug is present even though I boot with "nosplash quite". This bug is not present if plymouth is completely disabled (plymouth.enable=0).
But this bug is about loading language specific font. I still have no problem running yast in console, so you see something different.
I'm afraid someone having this problem has to debug it. Try booting in single user; try disable as much as possible (and yes, plymouth is the first thing to disable). Try different user (root and normal user have different locale settings by default). Try booting in different run levels. Someone who has this issue needs to find out reliable way to reproduce it or at least find out what triggers it. Otherwise it will never be fixed.
Indeed plymouth causing not only a nice outfit but trouble by locking virtual consoles and also serial lines. This could be also a side effect of the conflict in plymouth-quit-wait.service and plymouth-quit.service with the graphical.target as this now causes that both quit-wait and quit will not done anymore. What does happen if the line Conflicts=graphical.target in plymouth-quit-wait.service and plymouth-quit.service will be removed? Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr