removing plymouth

[Balint Szigeti]

On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 06:49 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Ed Greshko writes:
> 
> > On 07/11/14 13:11, Balint Szigeti wrote:
> > > Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth packages? I  
> > know it handles the boot screen and the user interaction during boot.
> > > Does it mean, if I remove this package I can't examine what happened  
> > during the boot or I can not boot?
> >
> > You'll be able to boot just fine.  You'll just see all the "OK"s scrolling  
> > by as the various components are started.
> >
> > Not sure what you're thinking the gain will be to remove it.
> 
> If plymouth is installed on one of my servers, plymouth gets stuck about  
> half the time, and nevers goes away.
> 
> One of my laptops, that still has plymouth installed, still manages to lock  
> up maybe 3% of the time. On that laptop, plymouth hasn't yet reached the  
> annoyance level needed to remove it.
> 
> Some kind of a hardware-dependent race condition in plymouth.
> 

Could you give me more information about it? How can we determine those
HWs?
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