[solved] Plymouth prevents booting to Plasma now - blank screen

maboleth · 2024-01-20 00:02:43

I've set Plymouth on numerous systems before, according to the wiki. Always worked.

Since last restart, I couldn't boot into Plasma, got a black/blank screen, stucked, alt+ctrl f6 and others didn't seem to work.
Fallback kernel worked because it didn't have "splash" in the kernel parameters.

Wherever I put "splash" now I get booted into a blank screen. Also there's no plymouth animation.

I don't remember changing anything in the mean time.
But I did delete one strange junk file in home dir, by using INODE, as it was stubborn and couldn't be deleted by rm or dolphin.

Anyway, I checked both partitions (boot and system) with gparted USB and it repaired whatever it needed to. It didn't help for this problem, whatsoever.

AMD 6650XT GPU with Mesa drivers

Last edited by maboleth (2024-01-20 11:26:02)

seth · 2024-01-20 09:07:06

"splash" isn't in that journal.
Generically, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start and add "initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init" to the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … mmand_line

maboleth · 2024-01-20 10:31:20

Sorry

http://0x0.st/H000.txt

also

http://0x0.st/H00D.txt

if the first one failed to log plymouth.

Tried both methods, still the same.
I've reinstalled plymouth, checked its conf file and appears normal.

So - plymouth fails to display anything (blank screen), cannot boot to Plasma (also blank screen).

Last edited by maboleth (2024-01-20 11:07:03)

maboleth · 2024-01-20 11:25:49

Fixed it.

I made a mistake adding "radeon" to MODULES, instead of amdgpu. That's why it didn't work.

Adding kms to mkinit also works. Not sure which is better, but I opted for Modules.

Last edited by maboleth (2024-01-20 11:31:25)

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[solved] Plymouth prevents booting to Plasma now - blank screen

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