Hi valuable friends
I’m running openSUSE 11.2 kde on msi wind u123. Everything runs fine except that whenever i try to shutdown or restart system i see both splash background and the rolling text. I think i should only see the splash with the progress bar until shutting down finishes. But for no apparent reasons i see both which is very annoying.
It might help that i changed the splash screen to a custom one. Here is the one i use and i followed every single instruction.
While waiting for advice (and may be checking if your own splash is not the cause of this), please try not to shout at us. Everybody here seems to be able to use the default font. No need to use that alarming font for the whole of your post. It may shy people away and that is definitely not what you want.
I hope somebody who did what you did with the splash screen will join here. But it could take some time. Remember that we are all over the world and some of us need sleep from time to time.
For the splash screen it is in the Grub configuration where the kernel parameters are. By default the splash is witched on (no splash parameter in the entry in grub) and
Thanks for the reply. But do you mean there are two triggers? one in grub (menu.lst) and another somewhere else? sorry its my first time to use opensuse.
Boot is (re)start. and the oposite is shutdown.
And it is a kernel parameter. The default way to get kernel parameters to the kernel is having them in the grub entry. I know of no other place.
You can of course overwrite the default by typing kernel parameters in the grub screen.
My shutdown is OK and that is the original installed one. When you say you changed your shutdown picture and after that you got a problem, imho you should thouroughly inspect that picture and the way you replaced the bootsplash. I supposed you did something within /etc/bootsplash/themes/ and changed /boot/message.
When you want help on that, maybe publishing of the picture and more about what you did might help people here might have suggestions. They can not when you do not give something to look at.
Copy the folder SuSE-Elegant to /etc/bootspash/themes/
Open the file bootspash on /etc/sysconfig/
Change the line THEME=“openSUSE” to THEME=“SuSE-Elegant”
On a terminal type mkinitrd
reboot
Since then the system boots fine with the nice bootsplash but shutdown process have both new splash (without progress bar) and console text.
I restored the original bootsplash and every thing returned to normal. So i suspect the downloaded bootsplash is the one with problem. Am i right? If so, anyway to fix it?
> Thanks for the reply. But do you mean there are two triggers? one in
> grub (menu.lst) and another somewhere else? sorry its my first time to
> use opensuse.
/etc/sysconfig/bootsplash
/etc/sysconfig/bootloader
(If you change grub directly, it will not survive an update.)
I don’t know how to change/modify it, I never do: I prefer verbose
boot/halt, full of cute text messages flashing by >:-P
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Obviously some sort of transparency is being set. But where I don’t know look in the config files for this theme. It is possible that the designer spent a lot of time getting that effect. I think it is neat myself. LOL
Ok, Problem solved. First of all great thanks to Henk and gogalthorp. Your help was very valuable.
Second i toke a look at the theme folder looking for the problem and comparing with the original theme provided by openSUSE.
Each theme mainly has this structure:
Folder [config]: this holds a configuration file per resolution
Folder [images]: in this folder there is two images per resolution. One is called bootsplash-[resolution] and the other is silent-[resolution].
bootsplash-[resolution] would be the background in verbose mode. And silent-[resolution] is the background in silent mode (no console text here)
All that was fine but i found that the config files of the new theme are missing some lines that does exist in the original theme. Those are:
trigger “isdown” quit
trigger “rlreached 5” toverbose
trigger “rlchange 0” tosilent
trigger “rlchange 6” tosilent
I searched the web and i knew that these four lines are responsible for telling the bootsplash when to switch to silent mode. While those are missing; The bootsplash wont change to silent mode at all as when the system send terminate signals the default is verbose mode.
For Henk question that is why isn’t the same effect shown during boot, I (think) it is because that i have the option splash=silent in my /etc/sysconfig/bootloader which activates silent mode at GRUB level before calling the bootsplash. Hence when bootsplash is loaded its already in silent mode so i see no problem.
That’d be all, Thanks for every one posted here to help me.
YES, you got it. Well done! It is often the case that asking stupid questions brings an OP to check for things he did not until that point in time. This is such a case. This is one of the big advantages of a forum like this one.
Nice you sorted it out and thank yo for reporting the solution here. I have learned from it also. And your conclusion about the kernel param overruling is correct imho.
I think it is neat myself. LOL