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T0MuX

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Registered: 2016-11-22

Posts: 4

fbsplash "Failed to load theme"

Hi !

I followed the whole wiki page of fbsplash, but I can't make it work and I don't know what is blocking.

- I installed thoses packages : fbsplash fbsplash-theme-arch-black fbsplash-theme-arch-black-extras (the extra one to have the resolution I want 1920x1080)

- I added the hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and re-generated the init :

HOOKS=(base fbsplash udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck)

- I added the correct (I think ??) parameter in /etc/default/grub.d

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet libata.noacpi=1 nvidia_drm.modeset=1 ibt=off console=tty1 splash=silent,theme:arch-black"

- I added the theme i want (arch-black) in /etc/conf.d/splash

SPLASH_THEMES="arch-black"

- The folder /etc/splash is well containing the arch-black's theme folder (/etc/splash/arch-black), which contains the 1920x1080.cfg configuration file itself

But, despite all of this, fbsplash never shows up and I got the following error message : "Failed to load theme 'arch-black'" (just before the normal message "Archlinux: clean, ***/*** files, ***/*** blocks")

Here's an extraction of some part of dmesg :

[    0.031174] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=bd63ce3e-d8b0-4a54-a7d8-3028d7e9da31 rw quiet libata.noacpi=1 nvidia_drm.modeset=1 ibt=off console=tty1 splash=silent,theme:arch-black
[    0.031277] Unknown kernel command line parameters "BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux splash=silent,theme:arch-black", will be passed to user space.
.......
[    7.997478] Run /init as init process
[    7.997479]   with arguments:
[    7.997480]     /init
[    7.997481]   with environment:
[    7.997482]     HOME=/
[    7.997482]     TERM=linux
[    7.997483]     BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
[    7.997483]     splash=silent,theme:arch-black

For the record, when I start

sudo splash_manager -c demo -t arch-black --steps 100

it works like a charm !! I can see it !!

So, I really don't know what is blocking or missing. Thank you for your help by advance !

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Soultrigger

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2021-11-04

Posts: 107

Re: fbsplash "Failed to load theme"

Maybe you can have the same results with plymouth, it is simple to setup.