F19: GRUB and Plymouth issues

[Marco Guazzone]

Hello,

I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD.

The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen
* is only text-based (white text with a black background),
* and uses an inadequate text encoding since it shows question marks in
place of the umlauted "o" (i.e., the o vowel with two dots on top of it) in
the Schrodinger word

The second issue is related to plymouth.
The service plymouth-quit-wait is marked as failed:

plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service;
disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2013-07-07 12:55:22 CEST; 5h
30min ago
 Main PID: 396
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service

Any idea?

Thank you very much

Best,

-- Marco

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 07/07/2013 01:27 PM, sguazt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD.
>
> The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen
> is only text-based (white text with a black background),
> and uses an inadequate text encoding since it shows question marks in
>
> place of the umlauted "o" (i.e., the o vowel with two dots on top of it)
> in the Schrodinger word
>
> The second issue is related to plymouth.
> The service plymouth-quit-wait is marked as failed:
>
> plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
>     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service;
> disabled)
>     Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2013-07-07 12:55:22 CEST;
> 5h 30min ago
>   Main PID: 396
>     CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Best,
>
> -- Marco

About Grub, that is what I did: first I installed grub2-starfield-theme 
and then I modified the file /etc/default/grub by adding the following 
lines:

GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"

Finally, you should reboot to see the theme in action.

HTH.

[Joachim Backes]

On 07/07/2013 07:15 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
> On 07/07/2013 01:27 PM, sguazt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD.
> >
> > The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen
> > is only text-based (white text with a black background),
> > and uses an inadequate text encoding since it shows question marks in
> >
> > place of the umlauted "o" (i.e., the o vowel with two dots on top of it)
> > in the Schrodinger word
> >
> > The second issue is related to plymouth.
> > The service plymouth-quit-wait is marked as failed:
> >
> > plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
> >      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service;
> > disabled)
> >      Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2013-07-07 12:55:22 CEST;
> > 5h 30min ago
> >    Main PID: 396
> >      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Thank you very much
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -- Marco
>
> About Grub, that is what I did: first I installed grub2-starfield-theme
> and then I modified the file /etc/default/grub by adding the following
> lines:
>
> GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
> GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
>
> Finally, you should reboot to see the theme in action.

Hi, I think you need an additional step before rebooting:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (don't forget to do a backup copy 
of /boot/grub2/grub.cfg!)

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 07/07/2013 02:25 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 07/07/2013 07:15 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
> > On 07/07/2013 01:27 PM, sguazt wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD.
> > >
> > > The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen
> > > is only text-based (white text with a black background),
> > > and uses an inadequate text encoding since it shows question marks in
> > >
> > > place of the umlauted "o" (i.e., the o vowel with two dots on top of it)
> > > in the Schrodinger word
> > >
> > > The second issue is related to plymouth.
> > > The service plymouth-quit-wait is marked as failed:
> > >
> > > plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
> > >      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service;
> > > disabled)
> > >      Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2013-07-07 12:55:22
> > > CEST;
> > > 5h 30min ago
> > >    Main PID: 396
> > >      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service
> > >
> > > Any idea?
> > >
> > > Thank you very much
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > -- Marco
> >
> > About Grub, that is what I did: first I installed grub2-starfield-theme
> > and then I modified the file /etc/default/grub by adding the following
> > lines:
> >
> > GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
> > GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
> >
> > Finally, you should reboot to see the theme in action.
>
> Hi, I think you need an additional step before rebooting:
>
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (don't forget to do a backup copy
> of /boot/grub2/grub.cfg!)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Joachim Backes

Oh indeed, I forgot about that part, sorry :)

Thanks Joachim!

Germán.

[Marco Guazzone]

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:05 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
> On 07/07/2013 02:25 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > On 07/07/2013 07:15 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
> > > About Grub, that is what I did: first I installed grub2-starfield-theme
> > > and then I modified the file /etc/default/grub by adding the following
> > > lines:
> > >
> > > GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/**themes/system/theme.txt"
> > > GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
> > >
> > > Finally, you should reboot to see the theme in action.
> >
> > Hi, I think you need an additional step before rebooting:
> >
> > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (don't forget to do a backup copy
> > of /boot/grub2/grub.cfg!)
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Joachim Backes
>
> Oh indeed, I forgot about that part, sorry :)
>
> Thanks Joachim!

Hello,

Thank you for the feedback.
Just for info, is the grub2 "without themed" the new F19 default, or
something's gone wrong with my installation?

Cheers,

-- Marco

[poma]

On 08.07.2013 09:11, sguazt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for the feedback.
> Just for info, is the grub2 "without themed" the new F19 default, or
> something's gone wrong with my installation?

It is essential for the boot loader to boot the kernel, not to play
disco. :)

poma

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 07/08/2013 05:32 AM, poma wrote:
> On 08.07.2013 09:11, sguazt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for the feedback.
> > Just for info, is the grub2 "without themed" the new F19 default, or
> > something's gone wrong with my installation?
>
> It is essential for the boot loader to boot the kernel, not to play
> disco. :)
>
> poma

Poma, he asked a different thing, and "just for info" :)

Marco, I'm not sure if it is the default behavior, but I did a fresh 
install with the live desktop DVD and my grub was also without theme.

Germán.