582390 – sys-boot/plymouth-0.8.8-r4 with sys-kernel/dracut-044: plymouth-start.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/plymouthd: No such file or directory

Bug 582390 - sys-boot/plymouth-0.8.8-r4 with sys-kernel/dracut-044: plymouth-start.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/plymouthd: No such file or directory

Summary: sys-boot/plymouth-0.8.8-r4 with sys-kernel/dracut-044: plymouth-start.service...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Reported:	2016-05-07 23:24 UTC by Garry Filakhtov
Modified:	2016-06-12 10:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Patch for plymouth-populate-initrd (plymouth-dracut.patch,809 bytes, patch) 2016-05-07 23:28 UTC, Garry Filakhtov	Details \| Diff
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Description Garry Filakhtov 2016-05-07 23:24:09 UTC

initrd helper script for plymouth /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd is installing binaries into /bin and /sbin. Systemd services from dracut expecting to have binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin and fails to start splash screen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create initrd image using dracut with systemd and plymouth.
2. reboot machine
3. see failure message in dracut
Actual Results:  
Plymouth does not start, journal says:
plymouth-start.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/plymouthd: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
Plymouth shows a splash screen

Comment 1 Garry Filakhtov 2016-05-07 23:28:39 UTC

Created attachment 433552 [details, diff]
Patch for plymouth-populate-initrd

Patch fixes plymouth-populate-initrd by prepending /usr subpath.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-05-21 12:55:33 UTC

please try with plymouth-0.9.2

Comment 3 Garry Filakhtov 2016-05-21 20:54:29 UTC

Hi Pacho,

I've tried plymouth 0.9.2 and it works with dracut out of the box.

But now I have another problem, I don't see actually a splash screen, only black screen, switching directly to desktop login manager.

Pressing a key switches to console output, like in working plymouth setup, so I guess it is completely different problem!

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-06-12 10:15:31 UTC

yeah, that is a different problem (maybe bug 466870, but feel free to open a new bug if that is not the case)

thanks for feedback