[SOLVED] bootsplash

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[SOLVED] bootsplash

Postby aselluza » Jul 4th, '11, 09:00

Hello, I'm having a problem for the last days, when I boou or shut down Mageia there's no graphic theme for booting, I only get the verbose mode. the only thing I was able to read is something pointing to Plymouth that fails, like if it couldn't find something... here: 'home/iurt/rpm/BUILD/plym.../src/libpl.../ply-pixel-buf' any idea? it's pretty ugly to see always that verbose mode... :roll:
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Re: bootsplash

Postby djennings » Jul 4th, '11, 13:25

ply-pixel-buffer.h is from the plymouth 'devel' package. Have you been recompiling plymouth?

Maybe you should uninstall plymouth with 'rpm -e --nodeps plymouth' (use --nodeps to ensure a whole lot of other packages do not get uninstalled with plymouth), delete /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf and /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf.rpmsave and reinstall plymouth again. Then check Mageia Control Centre is configured for the graphical boot.
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Re: bootsplash

Postby doktor5000 » Jul 4th, '11, 13:40

djennings wrote:Maybe you should uninstall plymouth with 'rpm -e --nodeps plymouth' (use --nodeps to ensure a whole lot of other packages do not get uninstalled with plymouth), delete /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf and /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf.rpmsave and reinstall plymouth again.


Why not simply
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urpmi --replacepkgs plymouth
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Re: bootsplash

Postby djennings » Jul 4th, '11, 15:43

Why not simply
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urpmi --replacepkgs plymouth


Good point, but will that restore the plymouthd.conf file?
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Re: bootsplash

Postby doktor5000 » Jul 4th, '11, 19:15

AFAIR if you made manual changes to it, those would be saved in an .rpmnew file,
and you would get the original file from the rpm back.
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Re: bootsplash

Postby aselluza » Jul 5th, '11, 15:34

thanks to both! i hadn't changed anything at all in plymouth before this happened (didn't know even that it existed!). i tried both ways, first the easieast one, with 'urpmi --replacepkgs plymouth', but it kept the same, booting in verbose mode. then i did the second one, only that i have no '/etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf.rpmsave'. just the first file in that folder, nothing else there, but it seems it worked! i have a graphical boot again :mrgreen: ;-)
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Re: bootsplash

Postby ahmad » Jul 6th, '11, 07:22

(Th plymouth package has a post install script that rebuilds the kernel initrd to populate it with the plymouth bits; however 'urpmi --replacepkgs' wouldn't trigger that script, that script is configured to only run on "install", --replacepkgs is considered as an "upgrade" of an already installed package. So my guess is that the kernel initrd needed to be rebuilt).
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Re: bootsplash

Postby isadora » Jul 6th, '11, 10:27

Script to execute after:

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/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-generate-initrd
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd
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Re: bootsplash

Postby aselluza » Jul 10th, '11, 19:16

Now it's working fine and I learnt how to choose the bootsplash theme in plymouth. thank you all! ;)
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Re: [SOLVED] bootsplash

Postby Stephane » May 21st, '13, 18:59

Thanks all,

I had the same issue and I just executed the two commands:
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/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-generate-initrd
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd


And the problem is solved.
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