Bug 2312355

Summary: plymouth bgrt theme doesn't work on boot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Description Pierre Ossman 2024-09-14 12:52:33 UTC
Created attachment 2046849 [details]
plymouth debug log

Description of problem:
When my machine boots, I just get the fallback three dots. On shutdown, I get the expected motherboard logo and spinner.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
plymouth-24.004.60-12.fc40.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot

Actual results:
Boot animation is the three text dots.

Expected results:
Boot animation is the motherboard logo and the spinner.


Additional info:
Doesn't help to do "sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -rR".

Attached a debug log from plymouth.

Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2024-09-14 13:49:26 UTC
Pierre, thank you for your bug report.

This likely is the same issue which I just did a blog post about (1). Please read my blog post and see if one of the 2 solutions / workarounds provided there works:

https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/28552.html


1) I was already planning on doing a blog post and you filing this was the trigger to (finally) get it done

Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2024-09-17 05:33:28 UTC
Many thanks! My system was not using the amdgpu driver, so the blacklist approach worked fine resolving the issue here!