Hi! I have seen a lot of topics which people complaining of the annoying “questions marks” during the boot. However, I didn’t find an specific way to fix it. I installed a nice plymouth theme, but I need apply this new theme after every update. Otherwise, the “questions marks” return.
So, is there a way to choose my plymouth theme forever?
It’s a problem with the os-prober in Grub2.
I guess you are dual booting two types of distros?
Is this for openSUSE 13.2 Leap 42.1 and/or Tumbleweed?
Hi! I’m not using dual boot - there is only Tumbleweed.
I have this issue on a new non dual boot install of TW on my laptop. I’ve tried the commands to set the default plymout screen and do a dracut --force but still have the three ?
Stuart
Even in fresh installations I always had this issue. In many different machines. I don’t know why.
I’ve just managed to get mine back at least for now. I issued these commands in this order
plymouth-set-default-theme --list
plymouth-set-default-theme openSUSE -R
The first lists available themes and openSUSE should be there, the following command sets openSUSE as the default and rebuilds initrd. Note that you cannot use the -R switch on its own, it must be used WITH the theme name to be set.
Following this my boot showed the correct openSUSE plymouth splash screen not the 3 ?.
Stuart
I have used these commands too. But sometimes, usually after updates, I need to do it again. That’s the problem.
Well then raise a bug on the problem. This is the first time I have had the problem, my other system is a dual boot one with TW Leap 42.2 (now was 42.1) and Windows XP and usually works fine. Perhaps they fixed dfual boot and not a single system.
Stuart
I’ve already submitted a bug report with Bugzilla.
There is a Grub2 patch for openSUSE 13.2 and Tumbleweed.
Hi! Many thanks. I will submit as a bug.
Update
Add this repository to Yast:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/arvidjaar:/bnc:/978973/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Select the Repositories tab and click on Switch system packages and update all of the Grub2 packages.
Navigate to /etc/default/grub, copy and past the following line below the entry GRUB_GFXMODE=“1280x800”
and add:
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
Save your changes and use the Yast Boot Loader to reinstall Grub2.
Shutdown and reboot your system.
I get this problem myself for months, and it’s still there in the latest version of openSUSE Tumbleweed: The splash screen is always a gray background with three green boxed ??? symbols near the middle of the screen. Also it’s not Nvidia exclusive as I think some people suggested, my card runs on top of RadeonSI and I still get it! Has anyone figured out what causes it by now, and are the developers working on a solution?
An important note: I just ran the following two commands suggested previously then rebooted:
plymouth-set-default-theme --list
plymouth-set-default-theme openSUSE -R
It did NOT fix the issue! The same gray splash screen with a green ??? appeared. It’s possible the issue might have changed and gotten worse since the last report here.
These days I dont have the 3 ? problem because plymouth crashses on every boot on Tumbleweed!!!
Stuart
Might we perhaps be talking about this crash? If it’s happening since yesterday, most likely so. Although booting with the advanced option still works, and that also shows the broken plymouth splash screen.
I dont have any issues booting with the normal option, I just get the rolling text screen until SDDM/KDE starts nothing hangs but I can see a crash in the log afterwards.
Stuart
I must be doing something wrong 
plymouth only core dumps around 90% of the time on my system.
Been going on for a while, unsure of exactly when it started, but this is from Feb 1st.
● plymouth-start.service - Show Plymouth Boot Screen
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-start.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Wed 2017-02-01 14:49:47 GMT; 54s ago
Main PID: 267 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Feb 01 14:49:40 Orion-Tumble systemd[1]: Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen...
Feb 01 14:49:40 Orion-Tumble systemd[1]: Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
Feb 01 14:49:47 Orion-Tumble systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Feb 01 14:49:47 Orion-Tumble systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 01 14:49:47 Orion-Tumble systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
For the moment I’ve disabled it with 'plymouth.enable=0" on the kernel command line.
It was fixed for a brief time. So, I’ve reopened this bug report again
Ref: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978973Can you please post your comments in the Bugzilla report.
Thanks
Yes but my issue is not NVIDIA I have ATI graphics and I dont see the 3 ??? but a crash every time, so how relevant is that bug?
Stuart
This bug always occur, idependent of your card or your version (leap or tumbleweed).
I also reported as bug: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994754