Leslie Turriff wrote: >> Leslie Turriff composed on 2018-05-07 05:27 (UTC-0500): >> > If anyone else still has plymouth installed and can check with top to >> > confirm plymouth is hogging CPU, that would be worth investigating. I >> > can confirm this on 2 boxes. >> >> I don't get why anyone thinks Plymouth's basic purpose is more desirable >> than the bloat it represents, or useful at all. I've never had it >> installed on an openSUSE installation unless maybe when it first appeared >> I didn't notice to taboo it. If I did, it was too long ago to remember. >> Anywhere else, e.g. Mageia, where Plymouth was not optional, >> plymouth.enable=0 went on those kernel cmdlines. At boot time, I don't >> need rainbow fluff and spindly or no text instead of nice bold, legible >> white on black racing so fast it can't all be read. > I agree. �I wouldn't mind these folks adding such new stuff to the > distros, except that (as KDE did) they tend to make them at best default, > and at worse mandatory, removing the features we're used to and > (sometimes) replacing them with "improved" ones. :-( $ dpkg -l | grep plymou ii libplymouth4:amd64 0.9.2-4 amd64 graphical boot animation and logger - shared libraries ii plymouth 0.9.2-4 amd64 boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer ii plymouth-themes 0.9.2-4 amd64 boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - themes ii plymouth-x11 0.9.2-4 amd64 boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - X11 renderer works great - no issues AFAIR there was a problem when systemd does not complete/close the target. I use ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59.9 all System-V-like runlevel change mechanism ii sysvinit-core 2.88dsf-59.9 amd64 System-V-like init utilities ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.9 amd64 System-V-like utilities hope this helps regards