On 12.04.2014 00:23, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Richard Shaw writes: > >> « HTML content follows » >> >> My wife's laptop has been having some sort of problem booting up since F18, >> though I have no idea if the current problem with F20 is the same problem or >> not. >> >> >> The bootup process will randomly stall and most of the time you can't get to >> a VT though it isn't locked up as a Ctl-Alt-Del will cause a proper shutdown >> and reboot. There's a lot of noise trying to find the issue in journalctl -b >> -1 (after a successful boot) but I think MAYBE this is it... > > I'm seeing this bug in F20 also. I use the solar theme, which makes it easy > to see that plymouth keeps churning, and it never stops. Usually after one > or two three-fingered salutes, my laptop decides to finish booting, but I'm > seeing this bug on several machines, not just the laptop. > > This is either a plymouth bug, or a bug triggered by plymouth. Some hardware > seems to be more afflicted than other. My laptop get stuck maybe, on 5% of > all the boots. At one point, on one of my servers, plymouth started wedging > on maybe 75-80% of all the boots. I wasn't absolutely certain that plymouth > was the culprit, but I uninstalled it on that server. After all traces of > plymouth were gone (after the next kernel update brought in a fresh > initramfs) that server never failed to boot, ever since. So, it has to be > either plymouth, or plymouth-triggered. > > I haven't been annoyed with my laptop often enough to do anything else, so > occasionally I just three-finger salute it, and that's that. I haven't > looked at systemd's journal; it's filled with tons of junk, and I just don't > have the energy to dig this out. > > If this gets annoying, just rip plymouth out, and that should fix it. > # systemctl stop plymouth-halt plymouth-kexec plymouth-poweroff plymouth-quit-wait plymouth-quit plymouth-read-write plymouth-reboot plymouth-start plymouth-switch-root systemd-ask-password-plymouth # systemctl mask plymouth-halt plymouth-kexec plymouth-poweroff plymouth-quit-wait plymouth-quit plymouth-read-write plymouth-reboot plymouth-start plymouth-switch-root systemd-ask-password-plymouth # ll /etc/systemd/system/*plymouth* # vi /etc/dracut.conf.d/omit_dracut-module-plymouth.conf omit_dracutmodules+=" plymouth " # dracut -f -v poma -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
