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Why is this laptop taking almost 1 minute to boot Ubuntu 13.04?
My dad's new HP Pavilion dv6 laptop running Ubuntu 13.04 takes almost a minute to boot up - it seems like it's hanging somewhere. Is there something I can do to easily fix it?
I need some help ...
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Xubuntu splash hangs on boot for 15s
Problem started recently. When I log in (in 80% of cases), the spinning logo on blue background hangs (wheel doesn't spin) for around 15s. Afterwards, the login box shows normally.
What's interesting ...
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Console output through plymouth-text
During plymouth-text (Proprietary Nvidia ), my "kubuntu 13.04 ..." splash screen suddenly shows bootmessages near the end of the bootup. Messages like "Daemon xxx loading [Done]".
Why are these ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.2 startup waits on splash screen and loads desktop only after pressing TAB
Ubuntu on startup shows the splash screen(with the dots rotating animation going on and on).
And only when I press TAB key it stops and the desktop loads.
What may be the problem?
Am having ubuntu ...
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2answers
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Gnome broken splash screen
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 today with gnome(First Ubuntu 13.04, then apt-get install gnome-shell). After this my boot screen is broken, you can see this here:
This happened at Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu ...
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Why does my PC shut down on boot?
Ubuntu 12.04.
So Ubuntu was working perfectly. I wanted to restart (Only because it was lagging a little) my PC, but weridly, it shutdown perfectly, but then didn't do the starting up part. So I ...
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How to disable boot screen, just show the text output? [duplicate]
When I turn on my computer, it shows a purple screen that says 'Ubuntu' in the middle. Pressing the 'down' key hides it and shows a terminal. How do I make it show the terminal by default? I've looked ...
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How can I disable graphical boot, yet start x during boot?
My question
I am not attached to the splashscreen or whatever. How can I configure a non-graphical boot that still takes me to the login screen? In other words, I do want X to start as the last thing ...
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Create custom Plymouth Splash
Can I create a custom Plymouth Boot splash?
I like the current one (at least I did before it broke) but I would like to try to make my own.
Is this possible, or am I trying something only ...
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Plymouth messed up
I used Plymouth manager, trying to the usual thing (changing the boot splash). It did this, but to the wrong one - so I tried to change it back. This apparently failed and I started to get an error ...
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1answer
179 views
No bootsplash screen shown when starting Ubuntu on HP laptop
I use Ubuntu 12.04 on my HP 6730s: I have a problem shown in this Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0eQ3FnrUQo
The video shows my computer booting up, showing the HP logo, then a black ...
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182 views
Boot splash and TTY in low resolution
I noticed that when booting from a live USB stick, my boot screen and TTY are in the same resolution as my desktop environment (1366x768). But when I boot from my SSD with the very same system ...
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How to change boot logo on a Live USB stick?
I'm making a little Live USB with my own distro, nicknamed "Hackbuntu" - it is basically a little bootable USB drive that you plug into a computer, boot it up, and then feel like a ninja when you're ...
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1answer
414 views
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS “Checking battery state… [OK]” and login incorrect
I have quite a famous problem as it seems: while booting, the computer displays Checking battery state... [OK] and then hangs.
* Starting CUPS printing spooler/server
mountall: Plymouth copmmand ...
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1answer
113 views
Custom Boot Logo Only Works On Shutdown
For some reason my custom boot logo is only working on shutdown. When booting up, it just displays the standard purple Ubuntu screen with the orange dots.
Any ideas why this might be happening?
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1answer
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Ubuntu splash won't change?
How do i change the boot splash background color to be black, not purple?
I have edited /lib/plymouth/themes/default.grub to
if background_color 0,0,0 ; then
clear
fi
then I also changed these ...
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1answer
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How do I retrieve my files from an Ubuntu install that can't boot?
One day I was turning on the computer, and it simply wouldn't turn on. Ubuntu would start to turn on, but froze up/quit just as it was "loading the dots" on the Ubuntu boot up screen (Plymouth). It ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 live usb boot hangs at Splash screen
I have created Ubuntu 12.10-amd64 bootable usb disk. It boots but when I select "Install on harddisk" or "Run without install", it just stops at the splash screen.
I tried -nomodeset, but same thing ...
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1answer
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Login Screen Background
I changed the Login Screen Background picture using ubuntu-tweak. It worked!
However, after a second reboot, the picture does not appear... well, it shows up for a mili-seconds, and after that the ...
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1answer
341 views
Ubuntu 12.04 startup is slow and dmesg output seems to lose several seconds
I use ubuntu on Dell Inspiron n4050.I have upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 from 10.04.
But now I find the system startup is a little slow and plymouth only show purple screen without logo during startup.
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Laptop LCD is off during boot, no plymouth
It is Ubuntu 12.10 32bit on Radeon open source driver (the card is Radeon HD 6310, on Lenovo Thinkpad X121e, AMD E-300 cpu).
At the start, during grub the resolution is as it should be and display is ...
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Booting screen flicker after clean install of 12.10 on Dell Inspiron 1525
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Dell inspiron 1525 which was previously running on windows 7. During booting, immediately after the purple screen, my screen flickers like crazy (kind of switching ...
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Change ugly bootscreen resolution to 1680x1050
My native resolution is 1680x1050, and i now how i can change the plymouth bootscreen resolution. But it dont work with 1680x1050.
I use NVIDIA Driver with Ubuntu 12.10.
Other resolutions are working ...
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1answer
830 views
ubuntu 12.04 Boot stuck at splash screen
I tried to change lightdm with gdm but when I set the computer to use gdm and logged out lightdm was used, so I uninstalled gdm, now this is the problem:
I shut down my computer and went to sleep, ...
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1answer
4k views
Change boot animation in ubuntu 12.04
Is it possible to change to boot animation in 12.04? I know it was possible on 11.10...
if it is, how do you do it?
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1answer
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booting into 12.04 results in a purple sceen for just a second.
I have a vanilla Ubuntu install running on an Ivy-Bridge ultrabook that is using Intel 4000 graphics. I have enabled autologin via a line in the lightdm config file. My boot is very fast, however, it ...
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1answer
173 views
Stuck between TTY1 and Disconnected from Plymouth
I am running 12.04 with an HD7970. I installed fglrx from AMD and it worked okay. Then Ubuntu prompted me to install updates (from software-center). After doing this, the PC only boots to a black ...
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1answer
173 views
Why does updating Precise lead to bugs during boot?
I've experienced this problem every time (3 times now) I install Precise and run a dist-upgrade: when booting up, I get thrown a gfxmode error, followed by either a long blank screen with a single ...
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1answer
76 views
What's the folk-lore on troubleshooting lightdm and other display manager problems?
I just spent a number of hours in trying to make my 12.04 boot again, after it put itself in a strange hang in splash screen.
After many trials and errors involving false leads such as
...
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549 views
How to fix plymouth for Intel graphics?
It works on shutdown but doesn't show up at boot.
Ubuntu 12.04 x64
Intel GMA 4500M HD with default driver
3.4.0-030400-generic kernel
An extra question - what is the point of having plymouth if it ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 nouveau and plymouth
I've made a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04, installed all updates and removed the proprietary Nvidia driver because I prefer Nouveau. Now I don't have Plymouth but only some weird line just few seconds ...
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How can I restore my boot screen in ubuntu 12.04?
I installed Kubuntu on my Ubuntu 12.04 installation... big mistake!
It has now changed my boot screen (boot prior to lightdm login screen)
How can I restore this back to Ubuntu login?
Nvidia ...
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How can I update from 10.04 to 11.04 (including Plymouth) on a virtual server?
I'm unable to upgrade. Every time I try the boot process gets stuck in Plymouth.
It's a virtual server, so no graphics and no grub either. How can I solve this problem?
Thanks,
Pete
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1answer
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loading splash screen takes priority over terminal or windows manager while running elsa
I recently installed e17 and was trying to set up defaults to use elsa and ecomorph over the standard compiz as it constantly crashes since updating to 12.04. If elsa is installed the loading screen ...
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Help with Plymouth script please! :)
I am attempting to work around this problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1997417
on the hypothesis that the problem is a race condition between the boot sequence and '/' and my raid0 ...
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After the update from synaptic I get stuck at the loading screen [closed]
I suppose that the Synaptic updated from ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04, because after I updated the packages in the synaptic, the update manager said that everything was up to date, and no box telling to ...
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1answer
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What happens if I disable and unistall Plymouth?
I have this problem with Plymouth, in wich it doesn't show up or, when it shows, with a awful resolution.
So, I wanted to uninstall Plymouth ( I found the package in Synaptics).
I'm using Ubuntu ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu boots but gives no screen
I got Ubuntu 11.10, with gnome-shell as desktop manager, and whenever I boot(select ubuntu from grub, just so you know where we are) it gives no screen, and if I wait a minute orso, and press the ...
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How to Boot with no splash screen
Ubuntu 11.10 desktop up to date (Gnome 3)
To prevent answers in haste, please notice that
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" is set in /etc/default/grub
Tried also GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi=off"
...
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4answers
6k views
Splash screen stopped appearing
I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, and the splash screen does not appear anymore. Instead I have a black screen even if the system boots correctly.
Does any body knows how to fix this.
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1answer
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How to enable plymouth bootscreen animation?
My netbook, running Lucid, can't display bootscreen animation. I want to know how to enable it.
My netbook is Acer Aspire One D260. Intel Atom N450, 1GB RAM and GMA 3150.
I know a tool called rcconf ...
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1answer
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How do I get the graphical bootsplash on my Macbook Air?
After upgrading to 12.04, the Plymouth bootsplash screen isn't present. Instead I get a text based version. How can I get the higher-resolution graphical Plymouth bootsplash back?
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1answer
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Plymouth splash not showing, purple and black on boot
I've got Ubuntu 11.10 on Asus machine with Nvidia G-Force 210M,...everything works fine, but bootscreen Plymouth splash does not show...
First time I've had big resolution logo so I Googled some ...
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Installed fglrx. Plymouth using text theme [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Enabling Nvidia driver messes up splash screen
My boot splash screen was fine with the open source drivers. I installed fglrx, rebooted, and it seems plymouth is using ...
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How do deactivate plymouth boot screen?
Lately, booting Ubuntu on my desktop has become seriously slow. We're talking two minutes. It used to take 10-20 seconds. Because of plymouth, I can't see what's going on. I would like to deactivate ...
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Purple start screen - no splash screen
After installing Ubuntu 11.10 on a new computer everything worked fine for a few weeks and now suddenly when starting up Ubuntu I get a blank purple screen with no "Ubuntu" splash and the 5 dots but ...
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1answer
2k views
How to remove Plymouth Boot Animation manager and keep the default boot screen
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit. Recently, I installed the Plymouth boot screen to change the boot animation. Now I would like to remove it. I want to revert to the default animation it was before I ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu stuck at plymouth boot splash
The title says it pretty much all. This is actually quite interesting. I set the timeout in grub2 to 0s. Now that Ubuntu does not boot, the grub menu appears.
I've tried booting in recovery mode, but ...
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2answers
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After installing the proprietary NVIDIA driver, my boot splash is very large and stretched. Any fix?
I know there have been solutions for previous versions of Ubuntu, but what is the best way to go about it now?
As an aside, if I have it disabled the splash is fine, but before the login manager ...
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1answer
3k views
How to properly reset all grub/boot settings?
Several symptoms:
No splash screen, just a console
No TTYs available (CTRL+ALT+F1 etc..), just random coloured bars
A while ago, I've used a tutorial to fix Plymouth bootsplash resolution and ...
