How to restore screen when plymouthd crash

Ray Strode halfline at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 20:08:18 PDT 2011


Hi,

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:56 AM, fykcee1 at gmail.com <fykcee1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Set terminal to text mode.
We actually already do that but in a more "use the hammer" approach
right below the code you added.

> 2. chvt to a proper tty.
Not sure this makes sense, but putting the vt back in VT_AUTO mode
makes a lot of sense.

> 1. What will plymouthd act, if user changes VT while showing splash?
It "deactivates" which means it drops drm master and stops flushing to
the screen.

> 2. I observed ply_terminal_lock/unlock failure -- invalid argument of ioctl,
> what does that suggest?
not sure.  what tty are you running on?

--Ray


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