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In the Ampere lab, we're seeing frequent boot hangs in plymouthd starting when moving from Fedora 42 to Fedora 43 on the AmpereOne systems. Plymouthd is stuck at: ply_event_loop_run() ply_event_loop_process_pending_events() on_tty_input() on_key_event() The current contents of the input buffer are: "0R\x1B58;113" That looks to be a partial response to something like a device status report. With the current logic in on_key_event(), a incomplete control sequence will cause the input processing loop to be stuck infinitely without making progress. The reproducibility of the hang is quite high (~60% maybe), but it seems like it's also quite sensitive to timing. I've never seen the hang happen with plymouth.debug on the kernel command line for example. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 43 Server on AmpereOne systems 2. Boot repeatedly Actual Results: Hang in plymouthd ~60% of the time. Expected Results: No hangs. Additional Information: The affected systems are connected to a serial console server like [1], which is certainly involved in sending the input that is getting plymouth stuck. [1]: https://www.vertiv.com/en-us/products-catalog/monitoring-control-and-management/serial-consoles-and-gateways/avocent-acs-6000-serial-consoles/
Created attachment 2123863 [details] [PATCH] ply-keyboard: Fix hang on read of incomplete terminal control sequence I'm seeing the reported hang fixed with this patch.
I filed https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/issues/321 for this.
Thank you for the bug report and for the patch. It is always a pleasure to receive a bug report with a patch fixing it :) I'm preparing a Fedora 43 with the patch included now.
FEDORA-2026-f19511b7ad (plymouth-24.004.60-24.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-f19511b7ad
FEDORA-2026-b61eb1e259 (plymouth-24.004.60-24.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b61eb1e259
FEDORA-2026-f19511b7ad (plymouth-24.004.60-24.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2026-b61eb1e259 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-b61eb1e259` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b61eb1e259 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-b61eb1e259 (plymouth-24.004.60-24.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.