Plymouth: Caannot get it to work on my laptop with Leap 42.1.

Cuttlefish · April 20, 2016, 2:55pm

Hello folks,
When I boot using a live usb plymouth will work (on Tumbleweed it will work for example), when I install leap 42.1, I cannot get it to work. My laptop uses INTEL drivers. Is there anything obvious that I’m doing incorrectly?

Here is my grub:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Apr 20 08:21:02 EDT 2016
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# For the new kernel it try to figure out old parameters. In case we are not able to recognize it (e.g. change of flavor or strange install order ) it it use as fallback installation parameters from /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

# If you change this file, run 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=""
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=8
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=1920x1080 quiet splash elevator=noop"
# kernel command line options for failsafe mode
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY=single
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM=0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
# Skip 30_os-prober if you experienced very slow in probing them
# WARNING foregin OS menu entries will be lost if set true here
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
# Set to 'y' for grub to be installed on an encrypted partition
GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=n
SUSE_BTRFS_SNAPSHOT_BOOTING=true
GRUB_BACKGROUND=/boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/background.png
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt

When I do mkinitrd as root it tells me that I have a problem with Multipath. Do I need to install it?

Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.1.15-8-default
Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-4.1.15-8-default 4.1.15-8-default
dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
*** Including module: bash ***
*** Including module: warpclock ***
*** Including module: i18n ***
*** Including module: ifcfg ***
*** Including module: drm ***
*** Including module: plymouth ***
*** Including module: kernel-modules ***
Omitting driver i2o_scsi
*** Including module: rootfs-block ***
*** Including module: terminfo ***
*** Including module: udev-rules ***
Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
*** Including module: haveged ***
*** Including module: systemd ***
*** Including module: usrmount ***
*** Including module: base ***
*** Including module: fs-lib ***
*** Including module: shutdown ***
*** Including module: suse ***
*** Including modules done ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies done***
*** Hardlinking files ***
*** Hardlinking files done ***
*** Stripping files ***
*** Stripping files done ***
*** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
*** Constructing GenuineIntel.bin ****
*** Store current command line parameters ***
Stored kernel commandline:
root=UUID=008fbe0b-ffb2-4164-8301-b0f327308447 rootflags=rw,noatime,data=ordered rootfstype=ext4
*** Creating image file ***
*** Creating image file done ***
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.1.20-11-default
Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-4.1.20-11-default 4.1.20-11-default
dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
*** Including module: bash ***
*** Including module: warpclock ***
*** Including module: i18n ***
*** Including module: ifcfg ***
*** Including module: drm ***
*** Including module: plymouth ***
*** Including module: kernel-modules ***
Omitting driver i2o_scsi
*** Including module: rootfs-block ***
*** Including module: terminfo ***
*** Including module: udev-rules ***
Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
*** Including module: haveged ***
*** Including module: systemd ***
*** Including module: usrmount ***
*** Including module: base ***
*** Including module: fs-lib ***
*** Including module: shutdown ***
*** Including module: suse ***
*** Including modules done ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies done***
*** Hardlinking files ***
*** Hardlinking files done ***
*** Stripping files ***
*** Stripping files done ***
*** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
*** Constructing GenuineIntel.bin ****
*** Store current command line parameters ***
Stored kernel commandline:
root=UUID=008fbe0b-ffb2-4164-8301-b0f327308447 rootflags=rw,noatime,data=ordered rootfstype=ext4
*** Creating image file ***
*** Creating image file done ***
Update bootloader...

Thank you for your troubles!

Sauerland · April 20, 2016, 3:09pm

And what is your Problem with plymouth?
plymouth will be after grub, before login to your DE.

Cuttlefish · April 20, 2016, 3:13pm

Sorry. Just a black (blank screen). No plymouth at all, then the login. I am also using gnome.

nrickert · April 20, 2016, 4:17pm

I don’t have an answer.

However, checking “/etc/default/grub”, I notice that I do not have anything similar to “video=1920x1080” on that command line. You might want to experiment with that (i.e. removing that part of the line).

For experimenting, it is easier to just edit “/boot/grub2/grub.cfg”. Then, if you mess up, you can recreate with “grub2-mkconfig”. If your edit change works (on the next boot), you can then copy that change to “/etc/default/grub” to make it permanent.

Sauerland · April 20, 2016, 5:55pm

As root see, what plymouth Themes are installed:

plymouth-set-default-theme -l

Install one:

plymouth-set-default-theme -R name

name is one of the above listed Themes.

Cuttlefish · April 20, 2016, 7:46pm

Thanks Folks for your responses.

Edited my grub. I kept it simple as nrickert has suggested. Right now I have it as

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash elevator=noop"

I even removed the elevator=noop part, but to no avail.

Sauerland: I have 3 listed. Detail, openSUSE and text.

None of them has worked and I did update my grub manually.

Does anyone running INTEL drivers get a working Plymouth and if so would they mind posting their grub?

Thanks.

Sauerland · April 20, 2016, 8:30pm

Here are my installed plymouth themes:

plymouth-set-default-theme -l
breeze
breeze-text
details
openSUSE
text

Now I install openSUSE:

plymouth-set-default-theme -R openSUSE
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.1.15-8-default
Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-4.1.15-8-default 4.1.15-8-default
dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'dcbtool' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'fipvlan' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'lldpad' could not be found!
dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'dcbtool' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'fipvlan' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'lldpad' could not be found!
*** Including module: bash ***
*** Including module: warpclock ***
*** Including module: i18n ***
*** Including module: ifcfg ***
*** Including module: drm ***
*** Including module: plymouth ***
*** Including module: btrfs ***
*** Including module: kernel-modules ***
Omitting driver i2o_scsi
*** Including module: resume ***
*** Including module: rootfs-block ***
*** Including module: terminfo ***
*** Including module: udev-rules ***
Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
*** Including module: haveged ***
*** Including module: systemd ***
*** Including module: usrmount ***
*** Including module: base ***
*** Including module: fs-lib ***
*** Including module: shutdown ***
*** Including module: suse ***
*** Including modules done ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies done***
*** Hardlinking files ***
*** Hardlinking files done ***
*** Stripping files ***
*** Stripping files done ***
*** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
*** Constructing AuthenticAMD.bin ****
*** Store current command line parameters ***
Stored kernel commandline:
 resume=UUID=ca4814cb-0fcc-4373-a9e8-1e06b6e07c9b
root=UUID=97fdcbe6-5e3c-499b-a4ed-cf40f4dc7e91 rootflags=rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=259,subvol=/@/.snapshots/1/snapshot rootfstype=btrfs
*** Creating image file ***
*** Creating image file done ***
Some kernel modules could not be included
This is not necessarily an error:
swap
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.1.20-11-default
Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-4.1.20-11-default 4.1.20-11-default
dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'dcbtool' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'fipvlan' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'lldpad' could not be found!
dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'dcbtool' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'fipvlan' could not be found!
dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'lldpad' could not be found!
*** Including module: bash ***
*** Including module: warpclock ***
*** Including module: i18n ***
*** Including module: ifcfg ***
*** Including module: drm ***
*** Including module: plymouth ***
*** Including module: btrfs ***
*** Including module: kernel-modules ***
Omitting driver i2o_scsi
*** Including module: resume ***
*** Including module: rootfs-block ***
*** Including module: terminfo ***
*** Including module: udev-rules ***
Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
*** Including module: haveged ***
*** Including module: systemd ***
*** Including module: usrmount ***
*** Including module: base ***
*** Including module: fs-lib ***
*** Including module: shutdown ***
*** Including module: suse ***
*** Including modules done ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies done***
*** Hardlinking files ***
*** Hardlinking files done ***
*** Stripping files ***
*** Stripping files done ***
*** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
*** Constructing AuthenticAMD.bin ****
*** Store current command line parameters ***
Stored kernel commandline:
 resume=UUID=ca4814cb-0fcc-4373-a9e8-1e06b6e07c9b
root=UUID=97fdcbe6-5e3c-499b-a4ed-cf40f4dc7e91 rootflags=rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=259,subvol=/@/.snapshots/1/snapshot rootfstype=btrfs
*** Creating image file ***
*** Creating image file done ***
Some kernel modules could not be included
This is not necessarily an error:
swap
Did not refresh the bootloader. You might need to refresh it manually.

Now reboot, nothing to change to bootloader.

And plymouth has nothing to do with grub2 bootloader.

Cuttlefish · April 20, 2016, 9:10pm

My turn.

plymouth-set-default-theme -l
details
openSUSE
text

plymouth-set-default-theme -R openSUSE
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.1.15-8-default
Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-4.1.15-8-default 4.1.15-8-default
*** Including module: bash ***
*** Including module: warpclock ***
*** Including module: i18n ***
*** Including module: ifcfg ***
*** Including module: drm ***
*** Including module: plymouth ***
*** Including module: kernel-modules ***
Omitting driver i2o_scsi
*** Including module: rootfs-block ***
*** Including module: terminfo ***
*** Including module: udev-rules ***
Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
*** Including module: haveged ***
*** Including module: systemd ***
*** Including module: usrmount ***
*** Including module: base ***
*** Including module: fs-lib ***
*** Including module: shutdown ***
*** Including module: suse ***
*** Including modules done ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies done***
*** Hardlinking files ***
*** Hardlinking files done ***
*** Stripping files ***
*** Stripping files done ***
*** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
*** Constructing GenuineIntel.bin ****
*** Store current command line parameters ***
Stored kernel commandline:
root=UUID=008fbe0b-ffb2-4164-8301-b0f327308447 rootflags=rw,noatime,data=ordered rootfstype=ext4
*** Creating image file ***
*** Creating image file done ***
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.1.20-11-default
Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-4.1.20-11-default 4.1.20-11-default
*** Including module: bash ***
*** Including module: warpclock ***
*** Including module: i18n ***
*** Including module: ifcfg ***
*** Including module: drm ***
*** Including module: plymouth ***
*** Including module: kernel-modules ***
Omitting driver i2o_scsi
*** Including module: rootfs-block ***
*** Including module: terminfo ***
*** Including module: udev-rules ***
Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
*** Including module: haveged ***
*** Including module: systemd ***
*** Including module: usrmount ***
*** Including module: base ***
*** Including module: fs-lib ***
*** Including module: shutdown ***
*** Including module: suse ***
*** Including modules done ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
*** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies ***
*** Resolving executable dependencies done***
*** Hardlinking files ***
*** Hardlinking files done ***
*** Stripping files ***
*** Stripping files done ***
*** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
*** Constructing GenuineIntel.bin ****
*** Store current command line parameters ***
Stored kernel commandline:
root=UUID=008fbe0b-ffb2-4164-8301-b0f327308447 rootflags=rw,noatime,data=ordered rootfstype=ext4
*** Creating image file ***
*** Creating image file done ***
Did not refresh the bootloader. You might need to refresh it manually.

nrickert · April 20, 2016, 9:21pm

I’m not having a problem here with Intel drivers.

Tumbleweed sometimes gives me the text theme (for plymouth). But with Leap 42.1, it all works smoothly.

Cuttlefish · April 20, 2016, 9:27pm

In comparison, I see that you have authentic amd and I have genuine intel. I also added multipath for the heck of it. To my untrained eye, I don’t see much of a difference.

Thanks Sauerland.

The mystery continues…

Thanks as well nrickert.

Sauerland · April 20, 2016, 10:10pm

Leap is installed in Virtualbox…

My PC’s are booting in Text-Mode…

Try: splash=silent or splash=verbose.

Cuttlefish · April 20, 2016, 11:41pm

No luck.

Is it possible that it is a hardware issue?

My inxi:

System:    Host: leap421.suse Kernel: 4.1.20-11-default x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Gnome 3.16.4 Distro: openSUSE Leap 42.1
Machine:   System: LENOVO product: 20AW004JUS v: ThinkPad T440p
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 20AW004JUS v: 0B98401 PRO
           Bios: LENOVO v: GLET70WW (2.24 ) date: 05/21/2014
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-4300M (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 3300 MHz 1: 2732 MHz 2: 2600 MHz 3: 2600 MHz
           4: 2927 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.17.2 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.8
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.1.20-11-default
Network:   Card-1: Intel Ethernet Connection I217-LM driver: e1000e
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 28:d2:44:3e:16:f3
           Card-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 5c:51:4f:93:3d:2f
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (5.8% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: CT250BX100SSD1 size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 20G used: 5.6G (31%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-2: /home size: 191G used: 8.1G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 191 Uptime: 0:20 Memory: 793.7/7675.4MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.28

nrickert · April 21, 2016, 12:57am

Yes, it’s possible. But in that case, you should be seeing the text theme of plymouth. Hmm, perhaps that is what you are seeing. For me, the text them shows something, but only after prompting for the LUKS encryption key. And I don’t think you are using an encrypted partition, so maybe it is just blank.