On Monday 07 May 2018 12:27:29 Leslie Turriff wrote: > From the OpenSuSE KDE3 folks. > > Leslie > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: [opensuse-kde3] plymouthd - takes continual 6% CPU with kdm > Date: 2018-05-07, 03:32:08 > From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> > To: "suse-kde3" <opensuse-kde3@...> > > All, > > There is an issue, that this is more to document than anything else. I've > done 2 Leap 42.3 installs. On this last one, after a minimal X install via > the Net-Install CD, I kept an eye on plymouth. In my 1st install, I checked > with top in konsole, more-or-less on a whim, and found plymouthd churning > away at 6%. > > On this second Leap 42.3 install (again 1st to minimum X via yast > net-install, because you cannot configure outside repos during install, > only community OSS, OSS-Debug, etc...) -- anyway, I decided to keep a > closer watch on plymouth and find out when it started behaving badly. > > On the initial setup and with the xdm "Default" display manager (that > clunky old thing with the system console window running in bottom-left > corner), plymouthd behaved, no problems. I spent the better part of a day, > moving documents over, .kde, etc.. and installing kde3 and the rest of the > normal things I install. All the while, plymouthd was fine. > > However, after setting kdm3 in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and kde as > the default WM, after rebooting and launching kde via kdm, plymouthd was > again churning away at 6% continually. > > So there is a definite issue with plymouth and kdm. I don't know exactly > why. This 2nd install was to an older laptop, so I didn't have 6% to spare > and just rpm -e all plymouth.... Problem gone. > > 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. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. i think it's supposed to shutdown when tdm starts. that's the actual bug. https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2806 i think the CPU usage is an after effect If you notice, you can't access the tty's either.... you can stop it in a normal session with this command sudo plymouth --quit you can also, deactivate the splash option in grub edit /etc/default/grub change this line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" save and run sudo update-grub