Questions tagged [plymouth]

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Plymouth bootsplash starting too late

I've set up a Plymouth bootsplash inside an initramfs on Raspbian buster. (It's using something similar but not identical to the raspi-config RO overlay.) But I've noticed that there's a considerable delay after the Pi starts to boot before the…
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Plymouth failed at boot - CAUGHT SEGV

I have a degraded systemd on my Raspberry (Raspberry OS) and the culprit is : plymouth. I have this error (catch SEGV) plymouth-start.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV ░░ Subject: Unit process exited ░░ Defined-By:…
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Playmouth ignores the current theme

On startup Plymouth 0.9.2, on Raspbian Stretch, always shows the "text" theme (three square dots) regardless the current theme settings. In fact I have: $ plymouth-set-default-theme mark1 $ cat /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf # Administrator…
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Effect of `nosplash` in /boot/cmdline.txt

I am trying to understand the effect of nosplash in the kernel commandline parameters. This is currently undocumented, but I'm basically obtaining a different behavior depending if its presence or not. For comparison, this is what I see: splash :…
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Restoring TTY cursor after boot splash

I'm using Plymouth boot splash on Raspbian Lite with great success, using this guide. By adding vt.global_cursor_default=0 in /boot/cmdline.txt it hides the blinking cursor during the boot sequence. Great! However now (of course) I don't have a…
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Run a script before blank screen on shutdown/reboot

I am trying to get my raspberry pi 3 (running Raspbian 10) to show an animation on boot and before shutdown/reboot. using Plymouth I managed to get the boot animation, however, it doesn't display anything on reboot/shutdown. So I wrote a small shell…
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Booting directly into app: remove console prompt

I try to quietly boot into a qt app on a raspberry 3 running raspian stretch. In my /boot/cmdline.txt I have dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty3 root=PARTUUID=02e50ed3-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes…
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After updating to Ubuntu 24.04 I cannot update/purge/remove plymouth "dpkg: error processing package plymouth (--configure): error exit status 1"

I was running Ubuntu 22.04 Server for Raspberry Pi. I just upgraded my release to Ubuntu 24.04 using the sudo do-release-upgrade command. Towards the end of the upgrade, I am getting the following errors: dpkg: error processing package plymouth…
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