SUMMARY Due to some "fun" shenanigans my root filesystem (/home is unaffected) currently only mounts as readonly on boot. After login, the splash screen doesn't disappear, and I have to manually kill it via Ctrl+Meta+Esc. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Inhibit remounting root as rw on boot 2. Login after dismissing SDDM’s warning that it could not write to some path OBSERVED RESULT The splash screen appears, the cog stops spinning and disappears, but the splash screen remains. EXPECTED RESULT The splash screen goes away as normally. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 43 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 Kernel Version: 6.18.6-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS with Radeon Graphics Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (12.7 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 660M ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If you do manage to inhibit remounting the root as rw, tell me how you reversed it, I have no clue.
root system readonly can't be sole the trigger since there are OS where / is r-o and ksplash hides correctly.
Isn't there only /usr read-only? /var and /etc are surely still writeable there?
Right, however I would not expect the splash having to write to /etc but maybe indeed /var