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I have set up plymouth with the solar theme and it works great, except for a couple of issues:
1. It shows the dell splash screen after leaving the grub menu (this is even with a delay of 0) for a second or two.
2. When the bar gets to the end, it transitions back to the dell screen for another second or two before loading lightdm.
What is curious is that there are errors in the lightdm and lighdm-plymouth services despite me disabling lightdm.service:
█▓▒░damien@Damien-Laptop░▒▓██▓▒░ Tue May 05 05:36:09pm
/home/damien> systemctl status lightdm
● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
Loaded: error (Reason: Unit lightdm.service failed to load properly: File exists.)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:lightdm(1)
May 05 17:35:49 Damien-Laptop systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager, refusing operation.
May 05 17:36:09 Damien-Laptop systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager, refusing operation.
May 05 17:36:12 Damien-Laptop systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager, refusing operation.
█▓▒░damien@Damien-Laptop░▒▓██▓▒░ Tue May 05 05:36:12pm
/home/damien> systemctl status lightdm-plymouth.service
● lightdm-plymouth.service - Light Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm-plymouth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-05-05 17:29:59 BST; 6min ago
Main PID: 838 (lightdm)
Tasks: 12 (limit: 19030)
Memory: 337.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm-plymouth.service
├─838 /usr/bin/lightdm
└─845 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
May 05 17:29:59 Damien-Laptop systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
May 05 17:29:59 Damien-Laptop lightdm[838]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
May 05 17:30:02 Damien-Laptop lightdm[1035]: Could not find provider with name NVIDIA-0
May 05 17:30:02 Damien-Laptop lightdm[1051]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
May 05 17:30:02 Damien-Laptop lightdm[1051]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightdm by (uid=0)
May 05 17:30:12 Damien-Laptop lightdm[1097]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
May 05 17:30:12 Damien-Laptop lightdm[1097]: gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session
May 05 17:30:12 Damien-Laptop lightdm[1097]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
May 05 17:30:12 Damien-Laptop lightdm[1097]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session opened for user damien by (uid=0)
May 05 17:30:12 Damien-Laptop lightdm[1097]: gkr-pam: gnome-keyring-daemon started properly and unlocked keyringNote that, each time I check the status of lightdm, it creates another error.
Here is my grub config:
# GRUB boot loader configuration
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Arch"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=0 intel_iommu=on iommu=pt"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Preload both GPT and MBR modules so that they are not missed
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos"
# Uncomment to enable booting from LUKS encrypted devices
#GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y
# Set to 'countdown' or 'hidden' to change timeout behavior,
# press ESC key to display menu.
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
# Uncomment to use basic console
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=console
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
# Uncomment to allow the kernel use the same resolution used by grub
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
# Uncomment if you want GRUB to pass to the Linux kernel the old parameter
# format "root=/dev/xxx" instead of "root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx"
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
# Uncomment and set to the desired menu colors. Used by normal and wallpaper
# modes only. Entries specified as foreground/background.
#GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-blue/black"
#GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue"
# Uncomment one of them for the gfx desired, a image background or a gfxtheme
#GRUB_BACKGROUND="/path/to/wallpaper"
GRUB_THEME="/usr/share/grub/themes/starfield/theme.txt"
# Uncomment to get a beep at GRUB start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
# Uncomment to make GRUB remember the last selection. This requires
# setting 'GRUB_DEFAULT=saved' above.
#GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"My mkinitcpio config:
# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run. Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array. For instance:
# MODULES=(piix ide_disk reiserfs)
MODULES=(i915 vfio_pci vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_virqfd)
# BINARIES
# This setting includes any additional binaries a given user may
# wish into the CPIO image. This is run last, so it may be used to
# override the actual binaries included by a given hook
# BINARIES are dependency parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=()
# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in any way. This is useful for config files.
FILES=()
# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file. The HOOKS control the
# modules and scripts added to the image, and what happens at boot time.
# Order is important, and it is recommended that you do not change the
# order in which HOOKS are added. Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
# help on a given hook.
# 'base' is _required_ unless you know precisely what you are doing.
# 'udev' is _required_ in order to automatically load modules
# 'filesystems' is _required_ unless you specify your fs modules in MODULES
# Examples:
## This setup specifies all modules in the MODULES setting above.
## No raid, lvm2, or encrypted root is needed.
# HOOKS=(base)
#
## This setup will autodetect all modules for your system and should
## work as a sane default
# HOOKS=(base udev autodetect block filesystems)
#
## This setup will generate a 'full' image which supports most systems.
## No autodetection is done.
# HOOKS=(base udev block filesystems)
#
## This setup assembles a pata mdadm array with an encrypted root FS.
## Note: See 'mkinitcpio -H mdadm' for more information on raid devices.
# HOOKS=(base udev block mdadm encrypt filesystems)
#
## This setup loads an lvm2 volume group on a usb device.
# HOOKS=(base udev block lvm2 filesystems)
#
## NOTE: If you have /usr on a separate partition, you MUST include the
# usr, fsck and shutdown hooks.
HOOKS=(base udev plymouth autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard btrfs)
# COMPRESSION
# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gzip compression
# is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
#COMPRESSION="xz"
#COMPRESSION="lzop"
#COMPRESSION="lz4"
# COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
# Additional options for the compressor
#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=()And my plymouth config:
# Distribution defaults. Changes to this file will get overwritten during
# upgrades.
[Daemon]
Theme=solar
ShowDelay=0
DeviceTimeout=5I have scoured through the following wiki pages: GRUB, Plymouth, KMS, Silent boot and LightDM. None of which have helped me solve this problem (although, they fixed everything else with this). Any help would be greatly appreciated! I should also note that I use an nvidia graphics card and intel integrated graphics with optimus-manager in my xserver, but I am rendering the boot screen with the intel driver (as can be seen in the MODULES part of the mkinitcpio.conf). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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