[opensuse-support] Tumbleweed - Plymouth: No splash screen on boot

Hi, I didn't care in the past for the missing plymouth boot screen on all of my Tumbleweed clients, but lately I installed a new notebook with an encrpyted root partition. Now I'd like to see the splash screen and escpecially the graphical password prompt for the encrypted root partition. I followed a lot of hints from the internet, but didn't succeed - no boot splash at all. I get a splash screen during shutdown now, though. What did I do: - reinstalled all plymouth packages - modfied plymouthd.conf to contain ShowDelay=0 - modified default/grub to contain "splash=silent quiet" (and various other combinations) - ran plymouth-set-default-theme -R <theme> - ran grub2-mkconfig after every change - ran mkinitrd after every change This is a Tumbleweed installation - with all the latest snapshots. The machine is a DELL XPS 13 9370 using the i915 graphics module. What can I do else? TIA. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

Hi Andrei,
What exactly do you see during boot?
I see in this order: - the DELL logo - the grub boot menu - the DELL logo again - some boot messages (including the message that plymouth has been started) - the prompt for the encryption passphrase - some more boot messages - the graphical sddm login screen Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

Hello Michael, Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2019, 17:38:00 CET schrieb Michael Hirmke:
So its an intel graphic, which should not be am issue in general. If you run journalctl -xb | grep plymouth what is the output? On my machine, with latest TW and Plymouth working, it looks like this: -- Subject: Unit plymouth-start.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-start.service has begun starting up. Jan 14 18:08:46 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 291 (plymouthd). -- 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. Jan 14 18:08:49 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 291 (plymouthd). -- Subject: Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished starting up. Jan 14 18:08:49 T520 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Found left-over process 291 (plymouthd) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring. -- 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.service has finished start-up -- Unit systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service has finished starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-read-write.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-read-write.service has begun starting up. Jan 14 18:08:51 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 291 (plymouthd). -- Subject: Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service has begun starting up. Jan 14 18:09:41 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 291 (plymouthd). Jan 14 18:09:42 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 291 (plymouthd). -- Subject: Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service has finished starting up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

Hi Axel,
Hello Michael,
[...]
This is a Tumbleweed installation - with all the latest snapshots. The machine is a DELL XPS 13 9370 using the i915 graphics module.
what is the output? On my machine, with latest TW and Plymouth working, it looks like this:
it looks quite different here: Jan 14 20:24:59 myclient systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 342 (plymouthd). Jan 14 20:25:14 myclient systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Found left-over process 342 (plymouthd) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring. Jan 14 20:25:14 myclient systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 342 (plymouthd). Jan 14 20:25:16 myclient systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 342 (plymouthd). Jan 14 20:25:16 myclient systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 342 (plymouthd). [...] Thx and bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

Hi again, my kernel command line might be of some interest: splash=silent resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/73a50dba-2914-4a68-8226-b5b972c921ad console=tty1 no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 systemd.log_target=kmsg log_buf_len=1M printk.devkmsg=on crashkernel=512M,high crashkernel=224M,low My X server is running on tty7. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

Hi Andrei,
What exactly do you see during boot?
I see in this order: - the DELL logo - the grub boot menu - the DELL logo again - some boot messages (including the message that plymouth has been started) - the prompt for the encryption passphrase - some more boot messages - the graphical sddm login screen Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

Hello Michael, Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2019, 17:38:00 CET schrieb Michael Hirmke:
So its an intel graphic, which should not be am issue in general. If you run journalctl -xb | grep plymouth what is the output? On my machine, with latest TW and Plymouth working, it looks like this: -- Subject: Unit plymouth-start.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-start.service has begun starting up. Jan 14 18:08:46 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 291 (plymouthd). -- 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. Jan 14 18:08:49 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 291 (plymouthd). -- Subject: Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished starting up. Jan 14 18:08:49 T520 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Found left-over process 291 (plymouthd) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring. -- 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.service has finished start-up -- Unit systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service has finished starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-read-write.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-read-write.service has begun starting up. Jan 14 18:08:51 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 291 (plymouthd). -- Subject: Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-read-write.service has finished starting up. -- Subject: Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service has begun start-up -- Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service has begun starting up. Jan 14 18:09:41 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 291 (plymouthd). Jan 14 18:09:42 T520 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 291 (plymouthd). -- Subject: Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service has finished start-up -- Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service has finished starting up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

Hi Axel,
Hello Michael,
[...]
This is a Tumbleweed installation - with all the latest snapshots. The machine is a DELL XPS 13 9370 using the i915 graphics module.
what is the output? On my machine, with latest TW and Plymouth working, it looks like this:
it looks quite different here: Jan 14 20:24:59 myclient systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 342 (plymouthd). Jan 14 20:25:14 myclient systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Found left-over process 342 (plymouthd) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring. Jan 14 20:25:14 myclient systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 342 (plymouthd). Jan 14 20:25:16 myclient systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 342 (plymouthd). Jan 14 20:25:16 myclient systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 342 (plymouthd). [...] Thx and bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

Hi again, my kernel command line might be of some interest: splash=silent resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/73a50dba-2914-4a68-8226-b5b972c921ad console=tty1 no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 systemd.log_target=kmsg log_buf_len=1M printk.devkmsg=on crashkernel=512M,high crashkernel=224M,low My X server is running on tty7. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org
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Andrei Borzenkov
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Axel Braun
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mh@mike.franken.de