Delay in starting the boot splash screen

Hello everyone, i first noticed this issue when i switch to kde for better application set, so this issue isn’t, at least for me, on gnome…
When i reboot/shutdown my system (GUI and command line but without the flag --now) i expected to see the plymouth splash screen and then reboot.

But for 5-6 seconds maybe more the system stay just “normal” i mean, i am amble to close and open windows and stuff like that and then after this seconds the plymouth splash appears and then reboot ( same issue with shutdown).

I tryed kde plasma on other distros (same version) and fedora is the only one affected.

In case will be usefull this is my hw config:

Lenovo yoga 7 ARP8
1920X1200 OLED screen
AMD RYZEN 7 7000s
AMD GPU 680M
16 GB RAM

Thanks in advance for your help, and excuse me if i made some mistakes, im not native english speaker :slight_smile:

Hey Peter! I understood you :slight_smile:

What you’re saying is on KDE Plasma, there is a delay when you press Shutdown or Restart before Plymouth appears, but this does not happen on on GNOME?

While it sounds like this is odd behavior, you could probably take a few steps to try to figure this out:

  1. What is happening on shutdown? journalctl -b -1 or similar could show you if there is a delay or some sort of activity happening.
  2. Check if you’re using ssdm or gdm and if there is extra settings applied in either. I am not certain if either of those might impact you, but you may find something more interesting in those logs to help troubleshoot.

I’ll see if I can replicate this as I’ve noticed a short delay myself when I shutdown on KDE, but I didn’t really pay much attention to it. :slight_smile:

Hi Robert,
Yes what you sayed its exatly what i meant,


for the first point i’ll attach a screenshot abt my journalctl but i can’t see nothing wrong… for the second point nop it just a fresh install of fedora 41 with latest plasma 6.3, no big changes in the sddm section just applied the system settings no more.

I understand it’s a minor bug but i want to figure out why only fedora it’s affected and opensuse it’s not for example.

Hi,
after some investigation i can say that’s a bug from kde logout sound,
this specific bug: 491745 – Logout sound delays initiating logout process rather than prolonging its completion when needed

I dunno why it happens but disable the sound resolve the issue