Plymouth Uses Wrong Boot-up Theme

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:27:18PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Stephen Morris writes:
> 
> >Hi,
> >    I have just configured Plymouth is install a graphical theme into the
> >initrd. I specified that I wanted the 'Solar Flares' theme to be used,
> >which correctly gets used at shutdown, but at start up the 'Solar Flares'
> >theme is not used, instead the 'Hotdog' theme is used. Is this a bug in
> >Plymouth or is this normal functionality?
> 
> You have to rebuild initramfs. Which is a pain; the easiest idiot-proof way
> to do this is as follows:
> 
> 1) Reboot, but select one of the older kernels from the grub menu, and boot
> it.
> 2) After you boot, manually rpm -i the newest installed kernel
> 3) Run yum update to reinstall the newest kernel package.

Just running the following as root should be enough:

# /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

should be enough.

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