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harfbuzz=dynamic breaks plymouth

Description:

After update to freetype2 2.14.0-1, Plymouth fails to start with graphical mode themes (like the default bgrt). Instead of the password prompt, I just see a stack trace on the screen (it mentions FT_Load_Glyph).

Rebuilding freetype2 without -D freetype2:harfbuzz=dynamic makes Plymouth work again.

Additional info:

I can't get much info, because the system seems to freeze when the issue occurs (at least, there's no response to any keystrokes, even SysRq). And the disk is encrypted, it's not unlocked yet - so no logs.

  • package version(s): 2.14.0-1
  • config and/or log files:
  • link to upstream bug report, if any:

Steps to reproduce:

  1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plymouth - Install Plymouth, add it to mkinitcpio hooks
  2. Make sure freetype2 is the latest version
  3. Reboot
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