Plymouth-quit-wait.service never quits, holds up other units

[rcm]

Fresh install, nothing fancy.

I noticed that KDE was complaining about "Power Profiles may be supported on your device. Try installing … or restarting … " bla bla bla.

I was truly baffled by this as the live install environment worked fine.

I finally landed on plymouth-quit-wait.service stuck waiting.

1   graphical.target              start waiting
2   multi-user.target             start waiting
155 power-profiles-daemon.service start waiting
134 plymouth-quit-wait.service    start running

4 jobs listed.

as soon as I kill that process, the remaining units finish and everything is fine.

Any idea what might be going on here?

[NGr]

Plymouth is more trouble than it’s worth. I removed it and haven’t had any problems since.

[Mirdarthos]

Wanted to say this exact thing.

[cscs]

And in case OP (or any future other) could use it … heres this

[HowTo] Disable or Remove Plymouth (boot splash)

In the year 2024 many Manjaro ISOs provide and enable plymouth by default. Which is to say it is not a system-critical component. It also has a nasty habit of breaking boot under various circumstances. In those cases, or simply to avoid the bloat, you can temporarily disable plymouth, permanently disable it, or remove it entirely. First an introduction to boot options for Grub You can tempoarily edit (add, remove, or change) boot options during boot from grub if you hit ‘e’ at selection. …

[rcm]

Hi all,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I will be disabling Plymouth.

This situation is a bit strange though because of some unfortunate timing with a MOSFET failure on my Framework laptop mainboard. It has me a bit skeptical if there is still something wrong with my kit.

While I was waiting for my replacement board, I temporarily moved my drive into my MS-01 so that I could keep on working, albeit constrained to my desk. However, upon moving my drive back to the Framework after installing the replacement board, I started noticing some behavior that I just don’t remember seeing before… namely, the aforementioned issue with Plymouth.

I installed Manjaro fresh on another drive from the latest installation ISO and observed the same behavior…plymouthd not exiting, which causes the plymouth-quit-wait.service to wait and hold up the remaining units from completing…namely power-profiles-daemon.service. To add to the confusion, I only seem to observe this behavior when I boot attached to my Caldigit TS4. If I boot unplugged or plugged into an AC adapter, plymouthd quits on its own and everything is happy.

Interestingly enough, I also reinstalled Manjaro from the installation ISO that I used back in August. That installation doesn’t exhibit this issue…that is until I update it.

I can forcefully terminate plymouthd with a kill -9, which releases the plymouth-quit-wait.service and thus the remaining service units.

Again, I find it strange that this only manifests if I boot while attached to my TS4.