Issued:

2011-05-19

Updated:

2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0686 - plymouth bug fix update

Synopsis

plymouth bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated plymouth packages that fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Plymouth provides an attractive graphical boot animation in place of the text messages that are normally displayed. Text messages are instead redirected to a log file for viewing after boot.

These updated packages fix the following bugs:

• When two monitors shared one controller during a system boot, a blank screen appeared on both monitors. Consequently, users with this configuration experienced prolonged blank screens during boot-up and shutdown, and a choppy splash animation on any other external monitor. With this update, this bug has been fixed and the splash animation is now smooth and is displayed on all external monitors. (BZ#625209)

• Previously, the plymouth daemon terminated unexpectedly if there were any "console=" entries on the kernel command line. As a consequence, boot messages were not properly logged. With this update, this bug has been fixed, the plymouth daemon now handles console entries on the kernel command line without any crashes and boot messages are written to the log file as expected. (BZ#631924)

• Previously, the system prompted for a password on boot but provided no hint as to what the password was for. That caused unnecessary confusion for some users, who didn't know which of their passwords to enter. With this update, a hard drive icon has been added to prompts associated with encrypted disk volumes and the password prompts for encrypted disks are now easy to recognize. (BZ#612665)

All plymouth users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• plymouth-theme-fade-in-0.8.3-22.el6.noarch.rpm
• plymouth-0.8.3-22.el6.src.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-fade-throbber-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-core-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.s390.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-space-flares-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-debuginfo-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-theme-rings-0.8.3-22.el6.noarch.rpm
• plymouth-debuginfo-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-two-step-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-two-step-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-graphics-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-debuginfo-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-theme-script-0.8.3-22.el6.noarch.rpm
• plymouth-graphics-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-utils-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-space-flares-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-throbgress-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-throbgress-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-utils-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-utils-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-core-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-graphics-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-scripts-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-devel-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-gdm-hooks-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-theme-spinfinity-0.8.3-22.el6.noarch.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-fade-throbber-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-core-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-space-flares-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-two-step-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-gdm-hooks-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-utils-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-script-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-core-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-fade-throbber-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-throbgress-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-devel-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-scripts-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-graphics-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-gdm-hooks-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-space-flares-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-graphics-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc.rpm
• plymouth-debuginfo-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-label-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-script-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-throbgress-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-scripts-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-fade-throbber-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-gdm-hooks-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-system-theme-0.8.3-22.el6.noarch.rpm
• plymouth-debuginfo-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-core-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-devel-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-devel-0.8.3-22.el6.s390.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-label-0.8.3-22.el6.i686.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-label-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-two-step-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-core-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-graphics-libs-0.8.3-22.el6.s390.rpm
• plymouth-devel-0.8.3-22.el6.s390x.rpm
• plymouth-debuginfo-0.8.3-22.el6.s390.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-script-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc64.rpm
• plymouth-scripts-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-theme-solar-0.8.3-22.el6.noarch.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-script-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm
• plymouth-devel-0.8.3-22.el6.ppc.rpm
• plymouth-plugin-label-0.8.3-22.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 612665
• This content is not included.BZ - 631924
• This content is not included.BZ - 638621

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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