[Bug 2056526] Re: Plymouth's hidden console contains squares instead of bold text on live session shutdown

[Tim Richardson]

There might be a race condition.

The modified script below allows the bold fonts to display:

The difference is the

ExecStart=- /bin/sleep 1

A value of 0.1 means the bold fonts do not render

a long delay (say 5s) changes in a bad way the shutdown process. The
messages stop with complaints about a device in use.



[Unit]
Description=Tell Plymouth To Jump To initramfs
DefaultDependencies=no
# dracut-shutdown.service restores the initramfs when it is _stopped_
# use Conflicts to make sure its ExecStop has run before we do
Conflicts=dracut-shutdown.service
After=plymouth-halt.service plymouth-reboot.service plymouth-poweroff.service plymouth-kexec.service dracut-shutdown.service mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service
ConditionPathExists=|/run/initramfs/bin/sh
ConditionPathExists=|/run/initramfs/shutdown

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
# Emit a blank message to force a dynamic load of all graphics libraries
# required for rendering text since it's a non-trivially large set, too large
# to manage manually in the initramfs. This will allow casper to render text
# like the live media ejection message after the jump...
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/plymouth message --text="Preload graphics libraries..."
ExecStart=-/bin/sleep 1
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/plymouth update-root-fs --new-root-dir=/run/initramfs

Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes

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Title:
  Plymouth's hidden console contains squares instead of bold text on
  live session shutdown

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Plymouth's hidden console contains squares instead of bold text on
  live session shutdown.

  You can see it by pressing Escape instead of Enter.

  It seems somewhat related to the fix for bug 1942987, which only
  preloads non-bold text for the live session shutdown splash.

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