Plymouth boot screen not showing after install

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#1

I've just installed the Plymouth boot screen on Manjaro 19.0.0 running kernel 5.5

I added splash to /etc/default/grub and ran sudo mkinitcpio -p linux55

But when booting there is no splash screen.

I get this in journalctl:

Feb 21 13:39:46 systemd[1]: Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
Feb 21 13:39:46 systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 408 (plymouthd).
Feb 21 13:39:46 systemd[1]: Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen...

And alot more messages, all successfull.

The theme in /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf is: manjaro-logo
which is installed.

Rest of config file is:
ShowDelay=0
DeviceTimeout=8

Have I missed something?

#2

see this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth

you have also have to
add plymouth in HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
and rebuild img kernels & modules

#3

I added both HOOKS="base udev plymouth..."

and

MODULES="nvidia"

to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

and added

quiet splash loglevel=3 rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 ...

to /etc/default/grub

and ran mkinitcpio -p linux55

But still I only get the normal text boot screen.

[edit]

If I try to run plymouthd && plymouth --show-splash in a text login, it shows the gnome login screen and crashes my system.

#4

Leave only quiet splash, no loglevel, logpriority and cursor related stuff is needed. Then do sudo update-grub and reboot.

#5

Running update-grub did remove the text boot screen.
Now I have my normal BIOS boot screen,
but changing the Plymouth theme and running
mkinitcpio doesn't change anything.

#6

you should install
plymouth-git from aur

#7

I am running plymouth-git from AUR.

I just tested plymouthd && plymouth --show-splash while logged in via text console 2 and having stopped gdm.service.

This produces the correct splash screen on text console 1,
but not when booting.

#8

check your plymouth theme
and change it to bgrt
then see if that shows

#9

I don't know what you mean by checking my theme?

The themes are freshly installed from pacman and I change with
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R bgrt

No matter which theme I select the boot screen is my BIOS background image without any kind of animations.

[edit] but the change is present when I run plymouthd && plymouth --show-splash from text console

#10

install grub-vanilla

#11

I'm not really comfortable replacing my boot loader.

Whats the difference between grub and grub-vanilla?

#12

I've installed Manjaro in a VM and installed plymouth-git and grub-vanilla and did all the config files.

There still is no splash screen when booting up.
However when I shutdown/reboot the running system I get the splash screen.

#13

Correct. Just install grub-vanilla without changing /etc/default/grub won't do.
Comment out GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE= and do update-grub.

As for your plymouth, I won't get further into it, but if you had boot-splash before, you will need to uninstall and disable bootsplash-systemd and at HOOKS line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, there is no bootsplash. Then only plymouth will work (assuming plymouth is set up properly at HOOKS and at grub). Reminder - I won't go more into plymouth or boot splash.

#14

I wasn't aware of bootsplash-systemd

I've installed this instead of plymouth and now have a working boot-splash screen.

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#15

i guess you have a laptop with hybrid gpu
intel+nvidia
if you had added i915
as module the plymouth would have shown

#16

I have only this: MODULES=(crc32c_intel), but plymouth animation works nevertheless.
It's not the first time I see someone having trouble getting plymouth to work and I still don't get it what is the reason for that. However, I have a custom i915.conf in /etc/modprobe.d:

options i915 enable_fbc=1
options i915 enable_guc=2
options i915 fastboot=1

Maybe that is it, or at least a thing that makes i915 be included anyway?

#17

It's a workstation PC with nvidia GPU.

I did try to add nvidia to MODULES but it didn't change anything.

#18

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