Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-09-17 Thread David Wright
On Sun 11 Aug 2019 at 19:55:12 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > Felix Miata writes: > > > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): > > > > > >> plymouth-quit-wait.service > > > ... > > >> I have no idea what a "p

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-11 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:27:31PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:55:12PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Huh? Under what conditions does this happen? > > Unusual ones. Put several encrypted devices into crypttab(5) with "none" > option *and* make sure th

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-11 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:18:27PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: [...] > > Huh? Under what conditions does this happen? > > > Look it up. Plymouth was only introduced in wheezy. I'm not going to do > your homewor

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
writes: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Felix Miata writes: >> >> > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): >> > >> >> plymouth-quit-wait.service >> > ... >> >> I have no idea what a "plymouth" is. >> > >> > Several things it brings to the t

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:55:12PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > Felix Miata writes: > > > > > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): > > > > > >> plymouth-quit-wait.service > > > ... > > >> I ha

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-11 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Felix Miata writes: > > > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): > > > >> plymouth-quit-wait.service > > ... > >> I have no idea what a "plymouth" is. > > > > Several things it brings to the table: > > 1-avoids /d

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
Felix Miata writes: > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): > >> plymouth-quit-wait.service > ... >> I have no idea what a "plymouth" is. > > Several things it brings to the table: > 1-avoids /dastardly/ "flicker" on mode switching during startup > 2-bling/eye candy during startu

Re: (Solved) Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Aug 2019 at 17:35:25 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 10 aug 19, 09:12:22, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > Upon reboot, the ciphered drive login had no asterisks, and it was > > 80x24 screen resolution. The boot sequence this time did not look like > > RedHat with the green success in

Re: (Solved) Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 09:12:22, Curt Howland wrote: > > Upon reboot, the ciphered drive login had no asterisks, and it was > 80x24 screen resolution. The boot sequence this time did not look like > RedHat with the green success indicators, in fact there were hardly > any boot messages on tty1 at all.

(Solved) Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-10 Thread Curt Howland
> wrote: > Just like the scanner in "Knight Rider", I see the picture. Yes. > What is the output of the following command? > > $ sudo systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait Unfortunately, since I went above-and-beyond before saving the text, I don't have the output, only that it didn't say

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/08/19 6:39 AM, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as >> seen during shutdown when something won't politely die. > Just like the scanner in "Knight Rider", I see the picture. > Except I believe that was a Pontiac, not a Plymouth. Sorry

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Felix Miata
Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): > plymouth-quit-wait.service ... > I have no idea what a "plymouth" is. Several things it brings to the table: 1-avoids /dastardly/ "flicker" on mode switching during startup 2-bling/eye candy during startup 3-bloats initrd 4-encryption handl

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
Greg Wooledge, on 2019-08-09: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > It [plymouth] seems to be pulled by "task-gnome-desktop", either by > > dependency, or mere recommendation, I don't know. From the > > quick test I did, it appeared in the list of packages to be >

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-08-09 21:48 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > It seems to be pulled by "task-gnome-desktop", either by > dependency, or mere recommendation, I don't know. From the > quick test I did, it appeared in the list of packages to be > installed: > > $ sudo apt install task-gnome-desktop > >

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > It [plymouth] seems to be pulled by "task-gnome-desktop", either by > dependency, or mere recommendation, I don't know. From the > quick test I did, it appeared in the list of packages to be > installed: > > $ sudo apt insta

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 09/08/2019 21.15, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-08-09 13:53 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > >> On 8/9/19, Curt Howland wrote: >>> Hi. New Buster install. >>> [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h >>> 54m 38s / no limit) >> Those asterisks are also red, and moving

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-08-09 13:53 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > On 8/9/19, Curt Howland wrote: >> Hi. New Buster install. >> [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h >> 54m 38s / no limit) > > Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as > seen during shutdow

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
Curt Howland, on 2019-08-09: > On 8/9/19, Curt Howland wrote: > > Hi. New Buster install. > > [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h > > 54m 38s / no limit) > > Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as > seen during shutdown when something

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Curt Howland
On 8/9/19, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. New Buster install. > [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h > 54m 38s / no limit) Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as seen during shutdown when something won't politely die. Only two things look

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
Kenneth Parker, on 2019-08-09: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 11:30 AM Curt Howland wrote: > > Hi. New Buster install. > > > > While X11 is working just fine, the console is unusable, due to a > > startup message that never stops: > > > > [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 11:30 AM Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. New Buster install. > > While X11 is working just fine, the console is unusable, due to a > startup message that never stops: > > [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h > 54m 38s / no limit) > > This goes on u