There might be a race condition. The modified script below allows the bold fonts to display:
The difference is the ExecStart=- /bin/sleep 1 A value of 0.1 means the bold fonts do not render a long delay (say 5s) changes in a bad way the shutdown process. The messages stop with complaints about a device in use. [Unit] Description=Tell Plymouth To Jump To initramfs DefaultDependencies=no # dracut-shutdown.service restores the initramfs when it is _stopped_ # use Conflicts to make sure its ExecStop has run before we do Conflicts=dracut-shutdown.service After=plymouth-halt.service plymouth-reboot.service plymouth-poweroff.service plymouth-kexec.service dracut-shutdown.service mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service ConditionPathExists=|/run/initramfs/bin/sh ConditionPathExists=|/run/initramfs/shutdown [Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=yes # Emit a blank message to force a dynamic load of all graphics libraries # required for rendering text since it's a non-trivially large set, too large # to manage manually in the initramfs. This will allow casper to render text # like the live media ejection message after the jump... ExecStart=-/usr/bin/plymouth message --text="Preload graphics libraries..." ExecStart=-/bin/sleep 1 ExecStart=-/usr/bin/plymouth update-root-fs --new-root-dir=/run/initramfs Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=yes -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2056526 Title: Plymouth's hidden console contains squares instead of bold text on live session shutdown To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/2056526/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
