Bug 840322

Summary: non-existent plymouth stay running during OS life
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frantisek Hanzlik <franta>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Frantisek Hanzlik 2012-07-15 21:05:58 UTC
Description of problem:
Although I uninstall all plymouth-* packages, after reboot there is all the time plymouthd process:

# ps xaw|grep plym
  153 ?        S      0:00 /bin/plymouthd --attach-to-session --pid-file /run/plymouth/pid

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
plymouth-0.8.5-0.2012.04.27.1.fc17.i686

Expected results:
plymouthd should not be running/stay running

Additional info:
I suppose that process was running from initramfs ("/bin/plymouthd" not exist on root fs) and perhaps after creating new initramfs from dracut this program will not be at initramfs too (and thus can it not be running), but what if I never create new initramfs? More, even if it is still present in initramfs, I have no "rhgb" parameter on kernel commandline - thus I think isn't any reason for its starting.

Comment 1 Frantisek Hanzlik 2012-07-16 13:34:23 UTC
i must refine this issue: it seems as from initramfs running plymouthd has attached console (/dev/tty1) and is impossible login at it.
But i was able switch to other /dev/ttyX with ALT/Fx, and there keyboard input work and login is possible.
Also, killing plymouthd process help and /dev/tty1 is acessible from keyboard.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-07-17 21:41:48 UTC
try rebuilding your initramfs with

 dracut -f

plymouth gets started before your root filesystem is mounted.

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