end.psplash.service results in failed state on UC18 devices

[jocave]

Current UC18 images include a service unit to ensure the psplash process is terminated. On the following devices this unit results in a failed state:

• rpi CM3
• rpi CM3+
• rpi 2b
• rpi 3b
• rpi 3b+
• rpi 4b

ubuntu@localhost:~$ systemctl status end.psplash.service
● end.psplash.service - Stop Splash Screen
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/end.psplash.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-07-02 09:38:23 UTC; 57min ago
  Process: 811 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pkill psplash (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 811 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

[anonymouse64]

Do you have logs for the end.pstplash.service to go along with this?

[ogra1]

this is a gadget issue and should be moved to https://github.com/snapcore/pi-gadget/

end.psplash.service is put in place by the initrd snippet:
https://github.com/snapcore/pi-gadget/tree/20-arm64/psplash/initrd/scripts/init-bottom

[omar-selo]

I'm also seeing the same the failing service on rpi400 and rpi4b1g devices running UC18.

Booting from a clean provision of UC18 image results in the following:

$ systemctl list-units --state failed
  UNIT                LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION                                                                                                                                                                                
● end.psplash.service loaded failed failed Stop Splash Screen                                                                                                                                                                         

LOAD   = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB    = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

1 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

With the following logs:

$ sudo journalctl --unit end.psplash.service
-- Logs begin at Tue 2025-02-04 07:32:06 UTC, end at Tue 2025-02-04 07:36:10 UTC. --
Feb 04 07:32:36 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Stop Splash Screen...
Feb 04 07:32:37 localhost systemd[1]: end.psplash.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 04 07:32:37 localhost systemd[1]: end.psplash.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 04 07:32:37 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Stop Splash Screen.