Indvertently reported as Fedora 9. Changing to Fedora 10.

plymouth plays around with kernel syslog. it could be that it's making messages come out of the wood work that would normally only show up in dmesg output.

Although, plymouth should only be *hiding* messages, not showing extra ones.

My suspicion is that Plymouth is actually creating the problem that's triggering text mode rather than simply exposing/hiding it.  In either case, Plymouth is definitely misbehaving.

can you add plymouth:debug to your kernel command line and see if there are any interesting messages?

Created attachment 326448 [details]
Plymouth debug 

Well, plymouth:debug is very verbose, but I don't see anything indicating the reason for the switch, only that it is switching.  Since none of this is apparently logged - I'm attaching a video of bootup instead.

The video is really hard for me to pause at the interesting moment, but it looks like it says

"Got hide-splash request"

So something in rc.sysint must be calling rhgb-client --quit or plymouth --quit, or plymouth quit

Would you mind adding

echo 1

echo 2

etc above everywhere plymouth and rhgb-client gets called in /etc/rc.sysinit and then saying which number you see right when it shows the text?

If you don't want to hack it up, I understand.

Looks like it's dropping out at line 233; 
	
  if [ -z "$makeswap" ] && cryptsetup isLuks "$src" 2>/dev/null ; then
	.......
  else
	plymouth --hide-splash
        /sbin/cryptsetup $params ${key:+-d $key} create "$dst" "$src" <&1 2>/dev/null && success || failure
	.......
  fi

Since, I'm testing without encrypted swap, it appears that "cryptsetup isLuks $src" is what's failing.  Running manually confirms this since I get exit status 234, which explains the plymouth switch.  Thus, it appears that this is a either cryptsetup-luks problem or rc.sysinit and not a plymouth one.

I'll continue troubleshooting on my end and, if necessary, open a new bug report for the appropriate component.


Thanks
Fred

Problem solved.  

Turned out to be the fact that my encrypted filesystems were not actually Luks formatted.  Apparently, rc.sysinit decides that this is enough to --hide-splash.   After changing the format, it works.  I could argue that Fedora should be less restrictive (and maybe I will - in the right forum). :)

Anyway, I suppose we can close this.

Thanks again,
Fred

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