Question: cleaned up boot/logging noise during startup

[shaunhurley]

Hi,

Had a quick question / comment on this topic. I just spent a bunch of time applying various tweaks and config options on an earlier version of FullPageOS to update the splash screen and minimize startup noise, and then had cause to create new template from your latest build and discovered that you had already rolled most of them into the official build - nicely done! (And lesson learnt for me!).

I had issues (as someone else reported) with changing the log outputs to tty3 to hide them - the display would remain on the splash screen - and was poking around looking for how to fix. One alternative that I did come across, that you haven't included, is to do a full uninstall of plymouth with sudo apt-get purge --remove plymouth

This appears to be super effective in eliminating the few remaining visible logs and tails during startup, and I've been running a device in test for a while with no ill effects, however there is some noise in various forums about plymouth having it's tendrils in a bunch of other stuff so I wanted to ask if you were aware of this option and / or any negative effects of using it? Most of the impacts I saw referenced talked about working in the context of a gui, which isn't really a concern.

Thanks again for all your work!

[guysoft]

Hey, I haven't really played with this. Someone posted this guide which seems to indicate that you actually want plymouth: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/59311

You could use something like CustoPiZer to make your own tweaked distro of FullPageOS with minimal logging. Or as you saw, I am very likely to accept pull request that clear up the boot sequence.