Bug 1205610

Summary: "A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit" when trying to use another TTY
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gwendal <ezwen-redhatbugzilla>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 22CC: elad, fedora, jeremyhu, pgervase, rstrode
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Photo taken after switching to other TTY none

Description Gwendal 2015-03-25 10:27:54 UTC
Created attachment 1006267 [details]
Photo taken after switching to other TTY

Description of problem:

I cannot access another TTY (CTRL+ALT+F3), since it only shows me the message "A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 22 alpha


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the computer
2. Before or after using the graphical gnome login screen, press CTRL+ALT+F3

Actual results:

There is this message and nothing else : "A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit", along with a time counter "[time] / no limit". See attached photo.

Expected results:

To be able to login using the textual login screen.

Comment 1 Gwendal 2015-03-26 11:49:18 UTC
Update - Here is what I've tried:

[xxx@yyy ~]$ ps -e |grep ply
  315 ?        00:00:07 plymouthd
  941 ?        00:00:00 plymouth
[xxx@yyy ~]$ sudo pkill plymouth
[sudo] password for xxx: 
[xxx@yyy ~]$ ps -e |grep ply

And after that I can access a terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+F3

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2015-03-26 19:35:46 UTC
this is fixed in gdm-2.16.0.1

Comment 3 Gwendal 2015-03-27 08:51:28 UTC
Fixed indeed with today's update. Thanks.

I've put closed resolved as "current release", but I'm now sure about which one to pick...

Comment 4 Jeremy Huddleston 2015-08-26 04:28:08 UTC
This reproduces for me when booting off of either:
Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23_Alpha-2.iso
Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-3.iso

I don't think it is fixed (or it has regressed).

Comment 5 Ramsay Bolton 2026-03-24 16:59:35 UTC Comment hidden (spam)