Public bug reported: setvtrgb is not correctly ordered when used with plymouth. It has an After=plymouth-quit-wait.service, but that may not be applicable when plymouth-quit.service is queued instead. This ultimately results in semi-random setvtrgb results as calling setvtrgb too soon will do nothing if the VTs aren't up/still getting fiddled with with by plymouth. So, depending on the unit tree the VT may have the correct custom color, or the default kernel color. Since this is entirely dependent on the units being started, and their effective order, this is super hard to reproduce reliably. The most reliable way I have is an ISO which has Calamares instead of Ubiquity and SDDM instead of GDM, which 100% of the time ends up having a unit order where setvtrgb is called waaaaay too soon (even before getty.target, although I am not sure that matters as far as the VT colors are concerned).
The solution seems excitingly simple though. Adding an After=plymouth- quit.service rule correctly orders the unit at least in my test case. Since After is only an order hint this should be entirely regression free. ** Affects: console-setup (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783283 Title: setvtrgb.service incorrectly ordered [with patchy] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1783283/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs