Hi there,
I just wanted to submit a quick bug report about Plymouth, which isn’t working on the latest Factory i686 ISOs I’ve tried, both Gnome and KDE variants, of the current 20140820 snapshot as well as the previous one. I’ve tested it on several different laptops with Intel graphics.
Thanks!
Bug reports should be submitted there: http://bugzilla.novell.com/ (same username/password as here).
The maintainers probably will miss it here in the forums…
which isn’t working on the latest Factory i686 ISOs I’ve tried, both Gnome and KDE variants, of the current 20140820 snapshot as well as the previous one. I’ve tested it on several different laptops with Intel graphics.
It works fine here on an up-to-date 32bit Factory installation inside VirtualBox.
So it might be an intel-specific issue.
There have been other problems as well with intel graphics in Factory during the last months.
Do you maybe boot to recovery mode? That prevents plymouth from working here as well.
Is plymouth actually installed?
Or do you mean it’s not working on the Live-ISOs?
It’s working fine for me, though with 64-bit KDE.
It appears to not be working when I boot the live media. However, I did an install from live KDE, and it is working on that installed system. (Install from live KDE is still a bit broken, but usable).
Ah, that’s good that it works on the installed system, which is more important. In my testing, I did not use recovery mode, just the default live environment. Maybe it is Intel graphics specific.
So you are in fact talking about the LiveISOs?
I didn’t try those, at least not recently, but I will later today.
But the LiveISOs did/do have some problems in recent times, especially the Installer is broken AFAIK.
The installer mostly worked.
On reboot there was a nasty error message about the second stage of install not found. I clicked the “Quit” button on that screen and had a working system. By contrast, when I tried that with M0, I had a badly broken (and unusable) system.
I did notice that the firewall was not started. It was easy enough to enable.
Correct, several different live USBs I wrote with several different Factory snapshots had broken Plymouth. Sorry I wasn’t clear.
Here’s the bug report:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893648
I did try the GNOME Live ISO now in VirtualBox, and indeed there’s no plymouth.
So it’s no intel specific problem.
I will try on real hardware tomorrow.
But as I wrote, there are known problems with the Live ISOs at the moment.
So I’m not sure whether the bug report was a good idea in this case… 
Thanks for checking!
So is the idea with the Factory ISOs to eventually reach a point where they are reasonably stable and polished and free of breakage? Or would it be best to install from a GM release and then upgrade it to Factory?
Install from a factory DVD installer or a factory Network installer should be okay. But there’s some brokeness in the live KDE and live Gnome isos.