Plymouth fails to start on boot

Posted by thomasfedb on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by thomasfedb
Published on 2012-12-01T06:35:40Z Indexed on 2012/12/01 11:08 UTC
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fedora17

On boot I get this error:

[FAILED] Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit.

When I check what systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service says I get:

[root@zanak thomasfedb]# systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service 
plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service; static)
      Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:19:48 +0800
    Main PID: 866
      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service

This is on a Fedora 17 system, with nVidia closed source drivers installed via rpmfusion.

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