Tumbleweed only starts if splash is removed from bboot options

English Install/Boot/Login
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I am using Tumbleweed. After snapshot 20241118 (I think, could be -1 or +1), my laptop did not start anymore. However, if I start via the recovery options or if I remove the splash option from grub, I am able to start.
If I do nothing during boot, I keep having an infinite blinking cursor in the upper left corner. Esc does seem to do anything, I don´t see any messages and the cursor is visible.
What can I do to fix this or to (help) debug the issue?

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If you wait at least 30-35 sec it should finish booting. It seems to be a problem with plymouth is the last snap-shot 20241118. I get the same issue with blinking cursor in upper left corner.

Also this thread Snapshot start-up slowdown 18112024 has info

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My computer does not boot at all, at least the cursor was shown for 20 minutes. So removing splash=silent or doing a recovery boot is for me the only solution at the moment.

Update:
Adding plymouth.enable=0 also boots my system

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Welcome to the forum!

Not a direct answer, just an opinion. We always disable the “splash” screen …
It adds no value :+1:

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That’s not all I do. I completely purge Plymouth*, nothing but bloat-bling that makes openSUSE look like Windows, hiding boot activity, as if nothing were happening before a login screen appears.

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Also with the latest updates, it does not boot if I enabled Plymouth.
I have an AMD Ryzen 7 7730U with integrated Radeon Graphics. Where should I create a bug report?

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Looks as already reported
bug 1233675
or the following that appears to be the same problem
bug 1233532

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Well, my laptop does not start at all if plymouth enabled. So that’s a bit different. I will open a new bugreport over there

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I wonder if adding these two instructions to the kernel line on grub2 would avoid plymouth :

systemd.unit=multi-user.target   systemd.unit=graphical.target

It works fine in my system but I’m not sure if plymouth is called after it switched to graphical.target.
Oher idea is to add just the same first instruction to the kernel line and this other to be executed automatically after logging in in console mode:

sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target

can be created an alias to quickswitch to graphical.