No splash screen on Fedora 43

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I switched to Fedora from Mint a few months ago and have never been able to get any splash screens working. Not even the default. There’s just a black screen and the little login sound. Is this a common issue? If so, how do I fix it?

2

This will depend on your GPU and having plymouth enabled.

Please share details of your machine as preformatted text using the </> using this command.

sudo dnf install inxi
inxi --Fzxx
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To be clear are you saying you have no slash screen or no login screen?

If you boot and all you see is a block screen then type Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get to a text console where you can run command to debug your setup.

Do you have an NVIDIA GPU?

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Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT /
    7800 XT] vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie:
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-2 empty: DP-1, HDMI-A-1,
    HDMI-A-2, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:747e
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raphael vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: none empty: DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, HDMI-A-3, Writeback-2
    bus-ID: 12:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e temp: 39.0 C
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-2 model: 24E3 res: 1920x1080 hz: 165 dpi: 92
    diag: 604mm (23.8")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: radeonsi
    device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: radeonsi surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland:
    drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.3.6 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (radeonsi navi32 LLVM
    21.1.8 DRM 3.64 6.19.10-200.fc43.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:747e
    display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:747e device: 1 type: integrated-gpu
    driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:164e device: 2 type: cpu
    driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
    xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
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Please answer the other questions I asked so we know what exactly you seeing as a problem.

6

My login screen works fine.
I don’t have the animation that plays after you log in. The screen goes black instead
I’m on an AMD GPU and have never heard of plymouth.

7

I am a bit confused. I get the Fedora logo before the login screen, not after. After I log in it goes to the desktop, which is what I want.

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Ok so you login then see a blank screen, not the desktop.

You should be able to get to a text console by typing Ctrl-Alt-F3.
Errors from logging in will be in the user and/ir system journals.

Look in the system journal for errors with these commands:

sudo journalctl -b 0 -p err
sudo journalctl -b 0 -g amdgpu

And use this command to look in the user journal

journalctl --user -b 0 -p err
journalctl --user -b 0 -g kwin