Package: plymouth Version: 0.9.2-1 Severity: important I've been using Plymouth across all of my systems since the early Wheezy->Jessie era, without major issues so far.
Recently, on my Testing box I got my Plymouth updated to 0.9.2, and since that day, when Plymouth is enabled and doing what its supposed to do (display a bootsplash), my system boot started to hang - after a while all I/O activity stops, the boot animation also freezes, and system becomes unresponsive - boot never finishes. The only way to get out of there is using the Magic SysRq combo (surprisingly that one still works and I'm able to safely reboot my system from that point). It's a huge dealbreaker to me since I've got used to my fancy bootsplashes... The workarounds so far: - Disable bootsplash (remove 'splash' from GRUB commandline) - Hit ESC to dismiss splash as soon as it appears - in this case boot continues normally and I'm able to logon without problems. I've enabled bootsplash, but also disabled quiet boot (so I can still see the kernel log and service startup messages whenever I want), dunno if this matter to this issue. So far I've noticed this problem on my Stretch/testing laptop, because the remainder of my Debian machines are still running Jessie/stable. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_VE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_VE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages plymouth depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.24 ii initramfs-tools 0.120 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libdrm2 2.4.64-1 ii libplymouth4 0.9.2-1 plymouth recommends no packages. Versions of packages plymouth suggests: ii desktop-base 8.0.2 ii plymouth-themes 0.9.2-1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf changed: [Daemon] Theme=lines -- no debconf information
