Apparently there's work on new splashscreen method, maybe it will be faster than Plymouth: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SUSE-Kernel-Bootsplash

Instead of Plymouth, a simple Solus ASCII art would look nice :)

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1. It's normal.
2. I mean, this issue isn't resolved yet so should be pretty obvious that you're still gonna get the messages :P

Urrr.... it's not that bad.

I confirm. I have lots of nasty noise on my LUKS password prompt... looks like shit has hit the fan.

As it was not yet explicitly mentioned, I'll add that (only after upgrading a newly installed system), right before the Luks passphrase prompt, there's a message saying:

When I shutdown I get this message: "Reboot: Power off", and on boot up, after entering pass to decrypt (FDE) I see some blue messages. After last kernel update, I'm not seeing the fsck messages.

I still get some messages during boot or shutdown: watchdog did not sleep.

@ikey can this be closed now ?

Yes I also noticed a very clean black screen with just a blinking vertical line like this --> |
Silent boot is finally silent. Thanks! :)

Since the update of today the boot is only black screen, I think it's slient now :P

Not sure why it was closed still lol - i know we made it noisier

@ikey Opening this again since it's not fully silent.

I can confirm that it is not entirely silent. I also did a clean install of the latest release without Luks.

I did a clean install of the latest release and have them too, so don't think it's either due to Luks

I still see messages about systemd-fsck. Maybe because I installed Solus Mate 2017.01.01.0 and now I'm on the latest version.

OK closing due to lack of response. Reopen if you disagree

Recent activities was emptied so as this is close, I'm posting this just just to let it appear again.

I'm using LUKS and after enter password it still shows a few messages about systemd-fsck for just a second or less. Is this normal or could it be hidden too?

Silent boot now implemented in https://git.solus-project.com/packages/linux-lts/commit/?h=linux-lts-4.9.23-19

No we'll merge it now because I'm doing the ffmpeg revdeps, and the ABI diff is ok

@ikey you'll be happy to ear that ffmpeg 3.3 has just been released today **no don't hit me please** ;-)
I did compile it and I checked VLC to make sure the patch still works.
I guess you probably don't want to rebuild everything today so I'm looking at the configure option there are many libraries that could be enabled.

@ikey Lollypop push pending as well once the upgrade is more finalized: https://git.solus-project.com/packages/lollypop/commit/?id=7b29acf135eda0fb979beefa623e1610810fe752

I'd say this is fixed..

Marking as resolved. We have since chosen our default wallpapers and updated the cursor theme.

@Tick Please confirm as to whether the latest kernel updates (you'll have one from more recently than 4.9.10) resolves this issue.

Resolved in unstable as of https://git.solus-project.com/packages/solus-sc/commit/?id=e520ec78cfc613ddc91d270893f681cafdb7434a