Hi All,
I have recently installed opensuse 13.2 and have done a distro upgrade to tumbleweed. After the upgrade plymouth boot stopped working. Now I am only getting a black screen with three green square dots on the screen.
My system has a hybrid graphics configuration with AMD Radeon HD6750M + Intel HD3000. I am using the opensource drivers. Can anybody please help me with this?
Well, this is the text mode splash screen.
AFAIK this is shown if plymouth cannot load the drivers for your graphics card.
With the open source driver this should not happen normally, I think.
Check that you have kernel-firmware installed, and try to re-create the initrd (“sudo mkinitrd”).
And maybe check that you don’t have “nomodeset” or similar on the kernel command line.
I take it your graphics is working fine otherwise, including OpenGL?
PS: You could also try to explicitely set the openSUSE theme manually (maybe something went wrong there) with “sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R openSUSE”.
And you must have plymouth-branding-openSUSE installed, as this contains the openSUSE theme.
I am seeing that around 50% of boots, and the regular plymouth screen (fading in of green wavy background) on the other 50%.
On a different install of factory/tumbleweed on the same computer (different hard drive), I always get the regular plymouth screen. I have no idea what the difference is. Both (obviously) use the same graphics – Intel Haswell graphics.
The install that always gets regular plymouth was originally installed in May, and updated since. I installed KDE, Gnome, XFCE and LXDE.
The one that sometimes gets three green dots was installed last week using the 20141107 snapshot, and I installed only KDE.
I upgraded in stages: old Tumbleweed > 13.2 > new Tumbleweed. On several occassions I also had the three greens (with a “?” in each), then a single text message displayed saying something about Firewalll2 (IIRC). Then it proceeded to KDE login as usual. Yesterday and today the regular plymouth screen appeared instead. Odd! If it happens again I will look at “messages” in /var/log/.
Now you are a Tumbleweeder, you should be posting and looking in the “Tumbleweed, Evergreen, and PreRelease Beta” forum. That’s where other regular Tumbleweeder’s go to give and look for help. 
Just to confirm I get this on my 13.2 to Tumbleweed conversion - I actually thought that’s what it was supposed to do, and look like. 
Hi wolfi323,
Thanks for replying. I don’t have nomodeset in the kernel parameters. Graphics seem to be working fine as I have all the desktop effects working. Also, I tried to set the plymouth theme manually. During the process I saw an error with dracut-install. Could that be the problem?
sayak@Sayak-PC:~> sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R openSUSE
root's password:
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-3.16.6-2-desktop
Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-3.16.6-2-desktop 3.16.6-2-desktop
*** Including module: bash ***
*** Including module: warpclock ***
*** Including module: i18n ***
*** Including module: ifcfg ***
*** Including module: drm ***
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/50drm/module-setup.sh: line 29: /lib/modules/3.16.6-2-desktop//extra/fglrx.ko: No such file or directory
*** Including module: plymouth ***
*** Including module: kernel-modules ***
Omitting driver i2o_scsi
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kernel-modules/module-setup.sh: line 15: /lib/modules/3.16.6-2-desktop//extra/fglrx.ko: No such file or directory
*** 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: 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 ***
dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/lib/modules/3.16.6-2-desktop/extra/fglrx.ko'
modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/3.16.6-2-desktop/extra/fglrx.ko not found.
*** 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 ***
*** Store current command line parameters ***
Stored kernel commandline:
resume=UUID=beb1f2dc-a441-45d1-a854-a178f5b76969
root=UUID=e0c1e45a-6d87-4168-819c-f65291cb0d15 rootflags=rw,relatime,data=ordered rootfstype=ext4
*** Creating image file ***
*** Creating image file done ***
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-3.17.2-1-desktop
Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force /boot/initrd-3.17.2-1-desktop 3.17.2-1-desktop
*** 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: 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: 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 ***
*** Store current command line parameters ***
Stored kernel commandline:
resume=UUID=beb1f2dc-a441-45d1-a854-a178f5b76969
root=UUID=e0c1e45a-6d87-4168-819c-f65291cb0d15 rootflags=rw,relatime,data=ordered rootfstype=ext4
*** Creating image file ***
*** Creating image file done ***
Did not refresh the bootloader. You might need to refresh it manually.
Yes, maybe.
*** Including module: drm ***
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/50drm/module-setup.sh: line 29: /lib/modules/3.16.6-2-desktop//extra/fglrx.ko: No such file or directory
Do you have the fglrx driver installed or not?
There seems to be a dangling symlink left, which probably causes dracut to not add the correct video driver to the initrd.
Try to remove /lib/modules/3.16.6-2-desktop//extra/fglrx.ko and recreate the initrd.
OTOH, this problem only seems to be with the 3.16.6 kernel, the 3.17.2 looks fine. Still, I would try that.
It seems resetting the plymouth theme manually has somehow fixed the issue. I have rebooted twice and got the bootsplash both times. Thanks. If I still see issues, I will report back to this thread.
I can confirm that command
plymouth-set-default-theme -r
was also sucsessful in my case.
On 2014-11-15 17:16, consused wrote:
> Now you are a Tumbleweeder, you should be posting and looking in the
> “Tumbleweed, Evergreen, and PreRelease Beta” forum. That’s where other
> regular Tumbleweeder’s go to give and look for help. 
Not the Evergreen forum.
Evergreen is 13.1 currently, and partially 11.4 
The LTS, not the rolling release
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
I think it’s time for you to login to the web interface, and check on the names of some forums 
On 2014-11-17 01:16, nrickert wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2676709 Wrote:
>> Not the Evergreen forum.
>> Evergreen is 13.1 currently, and partially 11.4
>> The LTS, not the rolling release
>
> I think it’s time for you to login to the web interface, and check on
> the names of some forums
Gosh. This is daft. Way, way, way daft. IMNSHO. :-/
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
lol!.
I was somewhat surprised to see a now “published” release combined with the other two. However, I’m sure that having Tumbleweed as a higher level forum is an improvement, making it more visible and accessible to posters with a reduction in moves by administrators. Evergreen gets few queries, and I’m guessing that Pre-release will be more interesting for Tumbleweeders.
If keeping a lid on forum segmentation is important, do you have a better solution?
So the issue reoccurred today again. I rebooted my laptop thrice and the three dots showed up all three times.
Three dots yesterday and today. But the boot a couple of days earlier gave me the regular plymouth theme.
I remember back when we would sometimes get dancing penguins in the grub legacy screen. Maybe the same randomizer is being used for plymouth
So far they haven’t returned here on Tumbleweed nor in a VM with 13.2 vanilla.
Due to circumstances I’ve had 2x TW installs and 3 x 13.2 installs and I’ve not seen a Plymouth theme yet. I’ve had verbose, three green dots and solid black (which is what I’ve got at the moment on this current install). Tried the options on this thread too. It does something each time but no theme, etc.
Actually I just installed that “fader” plugin for Plymouth and it must have kick started it because it now works.
What? Not the dread “-fade-throbber”? lol!
The only “plymouth-plugin-” installed here are “-label” and “-script”, probably defaults as I didn’t choose to install them.