2014-10-11 14:36 GMT+04:00 Raymond Wooninck <[email protected]>: > On Saturday 11 October 2014 14:13:24 Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: >> Hi Raymond, >> >> We are discussing this sr: >> https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff/Base:System/branding-openSUSE?linkr >> ev=base&rev=116 >> >> and purpose to require plymouth-plugin-label package here. >> > Wow, that is an request from more than 2 years ago and this was the first > plymouth theme for openSUSE. > > The reason for having the label plugin back then, was to show text on the > plymouth screen in order to ask for the password to unlock LUKS/encrypted > devices. Without the plugin, the text would not show and the password would be > asked behind the graphical screen. This would lead to the believe that > plymouth wasn't asking for a password and that it was just hanging.
This makes sense. > If in the current setup this plugin is still required, I do not know as that I > only created the first plymouth theme and that was then taken over by the > artwork team. Also there quite some bugs about the unlocking of the encrypted > devices with plymouth and it could be that for those systems you no longer > have a graphical boot screen. > > The people who maintain the branding (artwork team) should indicate if they > are utilizing the functionality to show text on the plymouth screen or not. If > not, then the label plugin can be removed from here. But, could you please check whether label is still used? I suppose it is inside the following file: https://github.com/openSUSE/branding/blob/13.2/boot/plymouth/theme/openSUSE.script I am not quite familiar with the plymouth stuff, so I am mostly grepping over there. label.so is not also mentioned in /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/50plymouth -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov http://blog.matwey.name xmpp://[email protected] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
