New Weird Encrpyed Password / Splash Screens for Fedora 42

[theta-sigma]

Hello,

I have Fedora 42 Workstation installed with encryption. Normally, Fedora splash screen (the one with the spinner and the logo) and the encryption password prompt have a nice GUI.

However, after some updates (via the software centre), whenever I boot my PC, instead of the splash screen with the spinner, it defaults to this terminal output:

Pressing Esc key, does show a ‘GUI’, but instead of the normal password prompt with a keyboard layout and a blue outlined textbox, I get this:

A greyish green screen with this off-centre text telling me to type the password. After I do that, instead of the regular fedora spinner, I instead get three squares on the greyish green background:

This also affects the update progress screens too, by the way. Anything related to the splash/boot screens looks like this. I don’t know how to fix it.

If anyone has any idea how to fix this, let me know.

[thephatlee (Marko Jokinen)]

this happends sometimes nothing to need to worry i have had it sometimes and after next boot it is just normal again

[theta-sigma]

Well sadly I’ve booted my system a few times since I first saw the change and its still like this. I tried applying any updates I can hoping it’d fix this but to no avail.

[thephatlee (Marko Jokinen)]

sometimes shutdown and start fixes restart is more on fast boot relative and might not always fix. Worth to try

[theta-sigma]

Its been a few days since I had this issue so its safe to say this issue won’t be solved by shutting it down and restarting, sadly…

[ludwigd (Damian Ludwig)]

What is the output of plymouth-set-default-theme? It should be bgrt. If not, try setting it.

Afterwards, run sudo dracut -f to regenerate the initramfs.

This should do the trick.

[barryascott]

This is apparently considered a bug and should get fixed.
Sorry I do not have a reference to any bug report.

[theta-sigma]

I ran plymouth-set-default-theme and the output was indeed bgrt. I ran sudo dracut -f and restarted my PC and the issue still remains.

[theta-sigma]

It would’ve been useful to have a bug report or an issue tracker to see its being worked on. Where did you hear about this being a bug, if you dont mind me asking?

[barryascott]

In one of the replies to an early topic on this issue on this site.

[theta-sigma]

Do you remember the general title or when it was posted?

[grumpey (Joe)]

"Please enter passphrase for disk..." has returned

After upgrading to Fedora 42, I noticed that the text “Please enter passphrase for disk…” has returned on the Plymouth screen at the prompt for the disk encryption password. Is this intentional?

[theta-sigma]

I don’t think its related to this, but rather the extra bit of text that started appearing on the normal LUKS screen.

(the issue they’re talking about)

(original for comparison)

Whereas mine is straight up different in an unintended way and also has the terminal output view by default instead of the GUI screen. Should I still try to follow the steps in that thread?

[theta-sigma]

I actually found a fix for this issue while searching through the forums, and it worked for me!

Here’s the solution:

Plymouth boot screen with three dots

Adding rd.driver.pre=amdgpu can resolve boot screen issues with AMD GPUs on Fedora. By including this parameter, you’re instructing Fedora to load the AMD GPU driver (amdgpu) early in the boot process, which often helps the system recognize the graphics driver correctly. Follow these steps to apply this fix: Steps to Apply: Edit the Grub File sudo nano /etc/default/grub Update the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX Line Locate the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in the file. Add rd.driver.pre=amdgpu to the end of …

[theta-sigma]

Though, there’s a minor nitpick in that there’s a second of two of a blank screen before i get the normal password screen. Other than that, i restarted several times and can confirm it works for me.