Splash screen using systemd


Damien LEFEVRE
 

Hi,

I'm working on an NVidia Jetson board with a TX2 module and I would like to have splash screen with a progress bar when booting and shutting down. The board boots to an application embedded style. There's no desktop and no user login.

The configuration I use makes use of systemd. 

I gave a try to psplash but by now I have realized that it is not compatible with systemd. The image is displayed but I don't get progress information.

Next try with dietsplash. The splash screen isn't displayed and I just have a black screen when booting. If I manually run /bin/dietsplash I lose control over the keyboard and the penguin isn't displayed.   

The dietsplash doc https://github.com/lucasdemarchi/dietsplash/tree/v0.3 mentions to add 'init=/bin/dietsplash' to the kernel command line. 

What would be the way to I add it?

Last try plymouth. An error comes during the boot and the splash screen doesn't show:
[   OK    ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
[FAILED] Failed to start Forward Passwrod Requests to Plymouth Directory Watch.
See 'systemctl status systemd-ask-password-plymouth.path' for details

systemctl status gives me:
● systemd-ask-password-plymouth.path - Forward Password Requests to Plymouth Directory Watch
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-plymouth.path; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

May 02 14:34:10 jetson-tx2 systemd[1]: [[0;1;31msystemd-ask-password-plymouth.path: Refusing to start, unit to trigger not loaded.[[0m
May 02 14:34:10 jetson-tx2 systemd[1]: [[0;1;31mFailed to start Forward Password Requests to Plymouth Directory Watch.[[0m

Any hint would be greatly appreciated :D

Cheers,
-Damien




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