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GalaxyTH

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Registered: 2024-11-16

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Boot hangs at "Starting: Show Plymouth boot screen"

Basically what it says in the title. The system was booting fine until I apparently messed something up following a guide to change the boot screen. I will try to be as detailed as possible in explaining the steps I took which led from the system functioning as normal to what it is now.

I am using KDE Plasma 6.2.3 and wanted to change the boot splash screen. I first tried to do so from the system settings and successfully changed the splash screen (everything still worked fine), but I was unsatisfied with the result and looked for another splash screen. After finding another one and using it the system still booted fine but the splash screen was different from what it was shown in the preview, showing the vendor logo of the laptop. I then tried removing said logo by appending the line bgrt_disable to the grub configuration, which successfully removed the logo. However, the splash screen was still not the same as it was shown on the preview. Finally, I tried manually installing the theme by following the included guide, which led me to the following series of commands

mv arch-glow /usr/share/plymouth/themes/
chown -R root.root /usr/share/plymouth/themes/arch-glow
nano -w /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf

changed plymouthd.conf to

[Daemon]
Theme=arch-glow
ShowDelay=5

and finally

mkinitcpio -p linux

And then the problem arose. I can boot fine if I remove splash from the grub configuration but still, I'd rather not have to deal with this problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: well I solved the problem by completely removing plymouth, breeze-plymouth and plymouth-kcm, and then reinstalling them. It might have been a problem with one of these last 2.

Last edited by GalaxyTH (2024-11-22 17:34:17)

GalaxyTH

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Registered: 2024-11-16

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Boot hangs at "Starting: Show Plymouth boot screen"

Bump. Tried to completely reinstall plymouth to no avail. Also tried enabling early KMS with no luck.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,232

Re: [SOLVED] Boot hangs at "Starting: Show Plymouth boot screen"

No suggestions yet, just fishing.   

When it 'Hangs', can you change to a different console using Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or F3 through F6)?
Can you 'ping' your box from another computer on your network?
Are your keyboard lights blinking ? (Caps lock, num lock)

Edit: Nvidia?

Last edited by ewaller (2024-11-19 02:45:53)

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GalaxyTH

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Registered: 2024-11-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Boot hangs at "Starting: Show Plymouth boot screen"

I cannot change to a different console, the system is completely unresponsive.
Pings get the response "Destination host unreachable" (the computer is otherwise normally able to be pinged, although for some reason about half of the packets are usually lost).
No keyboards lights blinking.
Using an intel integrated graphics card.