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westernCiv

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Registered: 2017-03-11

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Plymouth splash screen: boot interrupted, "starting version 232"

I tried to add a nice splash screen with plymouth to my Arch system 
I followed the instructions from ArchWiki: Plymouth  and ArchWiki: Kernel_Parameters:

1. Add "plymouth" to "HOOKS" in "/etc/mkinitcpio.conf": 
"HOOKS="base udev plymouth autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck""

2. Add "quiet splash" to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" in "etc/default/grub":
"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash""

3. Run "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg" and "mkinitcpio -p linux"

On boot, after the GRUB menu, the message "starting version 232" appears for a few seconds. Then the plymouth theme (spinner) is visible for 3s, then again "starting version 232" shows up - and stays until I do a hard shutdown. I couldn't reach bash through "Ctrl+Alt+F1"

I managed to chroot into the system and remove Plymouth, it boots as usual now.
I also tried the same steps on a fresh AL install, resulting in the same error.

Anyone experienced the same issue?

Thanks in advance for help

Pyntux

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 391

Re: Plymouth splash screen: boot interrupted, "starting version 232"

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Silent_boot

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westernCiv

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Registered: 2017-03-11

Posts: 2

Re: Plymouth splash screen: boot interrupted, "starting version 232"

I visited the link before, but didn't read it carefully.
Adding "vga=current" to the kernel parameters solved the problem

However, another problem occured:
On shutdown, the splash theme is shown correctly. On boot, only a tricolor progress bar appears (which seems to be some kind of fallback theme / "text"-theme)
I found other reports about plymouth not working on boot up, installed plymouth-legacy from AUR and updated the initrd-image. It had no effect
I also activated other themes (spinner,spinfinity,dark-arch etc), they all work on shutdown but no on boot...

EDIT:
The plymouth-git (orphaned!?) package shows no splash at all

Last edited by westernCiv (2017-03-18 07:18:34)

0x0000053A

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Registered: 2017-07-02

Posts: 16

Re: Plymouth splash screen: boot interrupted, "starting version 232"

I've got ther same problem, but I can't solve it by simply adding vga=current to kernel parameters.
Tried 'i915', 'intel_agp i915' and 'nouveau' as MODULES value in mkinitcpio.conf, nothing works: starting version 234, blink screen, starting version 234 but with terminus font, then Plymouth spinner, then starting version 234 again (what's that anyway, systemd version?) and finally LightDM login screen (btw lightdm-plymouth is enabled).

I'm using EFI stub (launching kernel with parameters directly from uefi), can that be the problem?

Oh, and also Plymouth doesn't show on shutdown. At all. No systemd messages too though, just two quick warnings... something about cgroup or whatever.

Last edited by 0x0000053A (2017-09-22 17:13:08)

nullptrT

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Registered: 2017-10-13

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Re: Plymouth splash screen: boot interrupted, "starting version 232"

I've got a similar problem on boot. The splash screen does only show a fallback theme, but boot succeedes. This bug was introduced with the new release from upstream. I don't know yet, if it is an issue of outdated themes or an issue of plymouth itself. I'll patch it, if I find a solution.

Last edited by nullptrT (2017-10-13 08:49:48)

nullptrT

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Registered: 2017-10-13

Posts: 2

Re: Plymouth splash screen: boot interrupted, "starting version 232"

You should be able to resolve this by doing this:

• Include your graphic driver module in the module array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

• The new configuration file introduced a new Variable (DeviceTimeout), so it may be missing from you initcpio's config, if you are using the old config file:

  root@Arch-RV515 ~ # cd /etc/plymouth 
  root@Arch-RV515 /etc/plymouth # cp plymouthd.conf.pacnew plymouthd.conf
  root@Arch-RV515 /etc/plymouth # plymouth-set-default-theme arch-charge -R   # Where arch-charge is to be replaced with your theme's name
  ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
    -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
  ==> Starting build: 4.13.5-1-ARCH
    -> Running build hook: [base]
    -> Running build hook: [udev]
    -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
    -> Running build hook: [modconf]
    -> Running build hook: [block]
    -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
    -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
    -> Running build hook: [plymouth-encrypt]
    -> Running build hook: [fsck]
  ==> Generating module dependencies
  ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
  [...]

  Just to say etc-update is a nice stable and small tool for this.

This topic should be solved and archived.

Last edited by nullptrT (2017-10-14 12:30:12)