One of my usual post-Fedora upgrade rituals is to reset the default plymouth theme back to solar. There's a long-standing bug with system upgrades always resetting the plymouth theme to the default "charge". That bug is somewhere in Bugzilla, gathering dust.
Well, having done this again, I was dismayed to see that the solar theme is completely broken. One of my laptops still boots, but instead of smooth animation, the theme basically suffers from Tourette's syndrome from start to finish, constantly flickering between two frames.
Laptop #2 doesn't even boot at all, after switching to the solar theme. That laptop uses LUKS encryption. The solar theme briefly flickers on and off, and that's it. Instead of the password prompt, all I get is a black VGA screen. The LUKS password prompt doesn't appear. I was able to edit the grub boot script, and remove the "rhgb" keyword. This allowed the laptop to boot, at which point I went back the default "charge" theme.
Created bug 1398061 for that. Hopefully, it won't end up gathering dust like its predecessor.
Laptop #1 also has a weird X problem where the initial login seems to work fine (except for the laptop's fingerprint scanner no longer getting activated, which is a different story), but if I log out, and attempt to log back in a second time, the laptop behaves as if X comes up at first, but then crashes immediately back to VGA mode, then going back into X mode, than crash again, about 3 or 4 times, before X manages to come up into my desktop.
Laptop #2 does not exhibit this weirdness. I suspect this has something to do with Wayland (sigh). #1 uses noveau, #2 uses intel. There is a blurb in the release notes about turning off wayland from gdm, but nothing is said about lightdm, which I'm using.
Overall, looks like 25 is shaping up to be a rough release.
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:52:49 -0500 Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
One of my usual post-Fedora upgrade rituals is to reset the default plymouth theme back to solar. There's a long-standing bug with system upgrades always resetting the plymouth theme to the default "charge". That bug is somewhere in Bugzilla, gathering dust.
Well, having done this again, I was dismayed to see that the solar theme is completely broken. One of my laptops still boots, but instead of smooth animation, the theme basically suffers from Tourette's syndrome from start to finish, constantly flickering between two frames.
There was an error in firefox that sounds a lot like this. It was because of gcc6, which uses a new standard for c++. That new standard breaks some code that used to be legitimate. Whenever I would play movies, until they got it fixed, they would do this randomly. Perhaps that is the cause of this behavior you are seeing.
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Overall, looks like 25 is shaping up to be a rough release.
Well, for you that seems to be true. I've been running it for months with minimal issues.
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