On 01/06/17 04:31, Greg Woods wrote: > This is a problem that my wife's laptop has had for quite some time. That system is > updated relatively frequently. The problem has just started happening on my server, > which is fairly far out of date now, so it couldn't have been a recent update causing > this, and the server itself has had no package updates for a long time. Both systems are > still running F24 (haven't had time to upgrade them yet, but F24 is still supported). > > What happens basically is this: > > Dec 27 09:01:16 worldsys.gregandeva.net <http://worldsys.gregandeva.net> systemd[1]: > Starting Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit... > > This message appears on the console and the timer counter starts. The counter never > stops, it keeps incrementing apparently forever (it had gone beyond "1w" the last time I > checked). This job never finishes, and the login consoles never come up (either > graphical or ALT-F? text TTY's). All the other daemons on the system start and run just > fine, and I can log into the system via ssh and everything other than the consoles > appears to be working fine. > > In both cases, if I change /etc/default/grub to add "3" to the kernel command line and > run grub2-mkconfig (thus using text mode instead of graphical mode at boot time), then > the TTY consoles come up fine, and I can log in and run "startx" and the graphical > desktop comes up just fine, so that lets out most things I can think of such as a bad > graphics chip or X configuration issue. So this is really just a minor annoyance, > because I have to log in and type "startx" instead of just logging in from the graphical > login screen, but I am curious as to whether anyone else has ever seen this and where I > might look to find information to troubleshoot it. I can see nothing in Xorg.log or > journalctl output that looked related, other than the messages from the > plymouth-quit-wait service. When the runlevel is 3, the service does exit successfully: > > -- The start-up result is done. > > Needless to say, when booting straight to graphics mode, this message doesn't appear in > the journal. > > I would check some links to start with.... [egreshko@meimei system]$ pwd /etc/systemd/system [egreshko@meimei system]$ ll default.target lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Mar 5 2015 default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target [egreshko@meimei system]$ ll display-manager.service lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Jan 9 2016 display-manager.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service In my case I use sddm as display manager since mostly I use KDE as my desktop. Yours will probably be pointing to a different one. -- You're Welcome Zachary Quinto _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
