Bug 891039

Summary: plymouth-set-default-theme does not correctly set the selected theme
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mattia M. <mattia.meneguzzo+fedora>
Component: plymouthAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: fedora, georvaldo, kevin, meidei, mrsam, neil, rstrode
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Description Mattia M. 2013-01-01 07:54:16 UTC
Description of problem:
plymouth-set-default-theme doesn't change the theme used by plymouth during the boot-up process as expected; it changes correctly only the shut-down screen.
In my case, the theme "hot-dog" is always used during boot-up, independent from which one I have selected with the above command.

I cannot remember if "hot-dog" is the theme I chose the first time I launched plymouth-set-default-theme; if so, either of the following events could be occurring:
1) once you have changed the theme for the first time, plymouth-set-default-theme is unable to change it again correctly(as for the boot-up process only, as I said above);
2) plymouth-set-default-theme always sets "hot-dog" as the boot-up theme whenever you launch such command, independent from which theme you choose.

Even after removing "plymouth-theme-hot-dog", launching plymouth-set-default-theme does not produced the desired result (which makes me lean toward hypothesis #1). 



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.8.8-5


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:

(According to hypotesis #1)

1. Install all Plymouth themes through "yum install plymouth-theme-*";
2. Select whichever theme you prefer, e.g. "hot-dog", through "plymouth-set-default-theme -R hot-dog";
3. Change the theme again to a different one, e.g. "spinfinity", through "plymouth-set-default-theme -R spinfinity";
3. Reboot.
  

Actual results:
Only the shut-down screen is changed according to your selection at point #3. During the boot-up process, the "hot-dog" theme (i.e. the one you had chosen at point #2) is always shown, independent form which theme you had chosen at point #3. 


Expected results:
The theme you have selected when launching plymouth-set-default-theme , i.e. "spinfinity", should be shown during both the boot-up and the shut-down process.


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Comment 1 Mattia M. 2013-01-03 08:40:34 UTC
Curiously, only after re-creating the Grub2 configuration through "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg", also the boot-up screen has started showing the theme I had selected.

Comment 2 Jorge 2013-01-23 18:30:50 UTC
Thank you. Exactly the same thing happened to me and I could not fix it. With your help I succeeded.

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2013-02-08 05:39:49 UTC
Normally you'd run (as root) /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd, but that is currently broken on F18, see bug #909039. So run the command it's supposed to run directly (also as root):
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod --install $(uname -r)

Comment 4 Sam Varshavchik 2013-07-04 02:29:17 UTC
plymouth-set-default-theme appears to be broken in F19.

plymouth-set-default-theme --rebuild-initrd rebuilds /boot/initrd-<version>, which is not very helpful, since it's /boot/initramfs-<version> that needs to be rebuilt.

Comment 5 Neil Bird 2014-03-14 09:14:53 UTC
This (wrong ramdisk name) is still a bug in Fedora 20 (at least from the install ISO, not yet tested with full updates)

Comment 6 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:54:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23

Comment 7 Dm3 K 2015-08-04 13:13:23 UTC
The script is also broken in Fedora 22. Wrong ramdisk name.

Comment 8 Sam Varshavchik 2015-11-14 14:00:45 UTC
The script is still broken in Fedora 23. This bug is over two years old. This is embarrassing.

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