plymouth screens broken with F14 + updates?

[Steven Haigh]

On 23/12/2010 4:58 AM, Kåre Fiedler Christiansen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:58, cornel panceac<cpanceac at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> 2010/12/22 Steven Haigh<netwiz at crc.id.au>
>>>
>>> On 22/12/2010 10:41 PM, cornel panceac wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2010/12/22 Steven Haigh<netwiz at crc.id.au<mailto:netwiz at crc.id.au>>
>>>>
>>>>      When I try to rebuild initrd using plymouth-set-default-theme, I get
>>>> the
>>>>      following output:
>>>>
>>>>      # plymouth-set-default-theme --rebuild-initrd text
>>>>      W: Cannot load dracut module "plymouth", dependencies failed.
>>>>
>>>>      Does anyone know how to restore this?
>>>>
>>>>      --
>>>>      Steven Haigh
>>>>
>>>> i reinstalled the latest kernel to fix this. it was a netinstall in my
>>>> case.
>>>
>>> I have the following kernels installed:
>>>
>>> # rpm -qa | grep kernel
>>> kernel-2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686
>>> kernel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686
>>>
>>> Obviously, kernel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 from the install media,
>>> kernel-2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686 from the updates repo.
>>>
>>> Booting with kernel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 shows plymouth as it should.
>>>
>>> Booting with kernel-2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686 does not show anything
>>> plymouth related on boot.
>>>
>>> What kernel are you using that has a working plymouth?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steven Haigh
>>>
>> i'm at office and i can't tell for sure, but i assume it's *64*.
>
> If reinstalling the kernel fixes the issue, probably something in the
> post-install scriptlets fixes it.
>
> My system tells me this:
> -----
> $ rpm -q --scripts kernel-2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>
> if [ `uname -i` == "x86_64" -o `uname -i` == "i386" ]&&
>     [ -f /etc/sysconfig/kernel ]; then
>    /bin/sed -r -i -e
> 's/^DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-smp$/DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel/'
> /etc/sysconfig/kernel || exit $?
> fi
>
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --install
> 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64 || exit $?
> preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --rminitrd --rmmoddep --remove
> 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64 || exit $?
> posttrans scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod
> --update 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64 || exit $?
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --rpmposttrans
> 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64 || exit $?
> -----
>
> I would guess that
> $ /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod
> --update 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64 || exit $?
> would probably fix your issues.
>
> If this works, it sounds like some other package (dracut? plymouth?
> something else?) is missing a scriptlet to remake initrd.
>
> Best,
>    Kåre

I modified the above a little to suit:

# /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod 
--update 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686
W: Cannot load dracut module "plymouth", dependencies failed.
#

Still no plymouth on reboot :\

The strange part is that this was a plain minimal install direct from 
the F14 DVD, then the only things done was "yum -y update"

-- 
Steven Haigh

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