Questions tagged [plymouth]
Questions about Plymouth, the software which is responsible for the graphical bootsplash screen
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Can I fix my corrupted Lubuntu splash screen, having disabled the graphical terminal in order to load the sisfb driver?
I have Lubuntu 14.04 installed on my desktop pc. The desktop pc has a SiS 651 graphics chipset.
As apparently commonly occurs with SiS graphics users, the resolution needed to be fixed by configuring ...
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Plymouth check gets stuck, preventing service operation
This is a strange one. If I do, say
service jenkins start
it will always freeze/get stuck, like waiting for some input. Same is with all services and start/stop commands. However, if I do it like
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Ubuntu 14.04 stuck on splash screen
Stuck on splash booting screen and i don't know what the error... ;(
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Stuck at boot after updating Nvidia drivers
I just installed Kubuntu (latest version) on dual boot with Windows 8.1 on my ASUS laptop. My boot manager is rEFInd.
I installed Kubuntu without grub (using ubiquity -b) and it installed and worked ...
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Proprietary Nvidia Driver: Broken boot screen
When I first booted Ubuntu Studio, the Logo with the spinning bars was shown correctly upon startup. Ever since I installed the proprietary Nvidia driver, the splash screen is broken and I have not ...
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splash screen customisation on ubuntu 14.04
I have customised splash screen logo which i'm able to see after rebooting the system. But on boot-up screen still i'm getting ubuntu logo. Any idea how to get customised splash screen logo on Boot-up....
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plymouthd crashes on startup - Intel HD 3000 - 15.10
After upgrading to 15.10 from 15.04 I got a segfault in plymouthd on every startup.
This is what I can find in syslog:
Nov 11 12:22:26 H3A2764 systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Main process exited,...
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Whats is the importance of Plymouth?
I accidentaly did a command to delete Plymouth from my ubuntu 15.04:
sudo apt-get remove plymouth
and after this my login screen didn't appear any more. After GRUB menu the screen became black and ...
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Ubuntu install from USB stuck on black screen [duplicate]
I have been trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 alongside windows 8.1 from a bootable USB. I am new to using a Linux OS. I turned off fast boot option, and I left secure boot on (I also tried off, but then ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Server - slow boot due to plymouth
Just recently I have discovered the problem with plymouth on my server (had to restart it after updating everythig, haven't touch it since spring this year). A boot takes almost 10min. From dmesg:
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Disable all splash graphics/texts on startup and shutdown? [duplicate]
I have LUbuntu running on a special device which runs a single program on startup and ever. I only need the user to see the splash of my program. BIOS has been taken care of. Now for the rest. What do ...
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Plymouth problems for Radeon HD 4850 on 15.04
I have had imperfect behaviour from Plymouth as long as I've had the card - i.e. across several years of Ubuntu versions. Card is connected via Onkyo SR707 receiver to HDTV, using open-source drivers. ...
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Cannot see Boot Screen on Ubuntu 15.04 running on Virtualbox
I have installed Ubuntu 15.04 on my laptop. Inside that, On virtualbox i have installed another ubuntu 15.04.
I see the ubuntu logo during the boot on the host but on the guest I see the message
ACPI ...
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Update errors Ubuntu 14.04
For a while after using the update manager, each time I get a message saying "the installation or removal of a software package failed." When using a lot of apt-get commands I also get an error ...
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Ubuntu logo flickering on shut down - Ubuntu 15.04 XPS 13
I have a laptop with a QHD+ screen (XPS 13 2015 9343) with Ubuntu 15.04 and kernel 4.1.3.
When I shut down the Ubuntu logo go to the top of the screen, the left of the screen then back to center.
I ...
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Is there such thing as a plymouth IDE?
I have googled and have scoured the internet attempting to find a plymouth script IDE which would allow me to see a sample window which update itself with code changes. Similar to Apple's XCode "...
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Setting a custom splash screen using blackbox on Ubuntu 14.04
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 with blackbox as the window manager. I would like to set a custom splash screen, but I have no idea where to start.
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Ubuntu boot splash screen lost
İ have installed Ubuntu 14.04.And boot splash screen is missing.There is only black screen after Grub and it opens Ubuntu directly.What can I do?
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Can't open file to disable splash screen
I'm on Xubuntu 15.04 32 bit if that means anything. It's a fresh install. I'm trying to disable the splash screen. (There actually doesn't seem to be any. It's a black screen from boot until I get to ...
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Animating images in Plymouth
I'm trying to animate an image for a custom plymouth boot theme. I can get the object to move by pixel increments, but it does not update fast enough to be smooth. I don't quite understand the trick ...
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Ubuntu taking long to shutdown [duplicate]
I use Ubuntu 15.04, I have a SSD drive also. Very recently onwards the ubuntu is taking long to shut down nearly 1:30 minutes.
I checked the shutdown log messages and I get the follow message.
A ...
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How to fix the issue with proprietary nvidia driver and plymouth on trusty 14.04?
I have encountered the following problem:
The xorg-server seems to be slow and crashing after a while on my nvidia quadro fx 4000. Screen freezes but becomes available again, when i make a screenshot ...
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Ubuntu is 'Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration...' on boot [duplicate]
On boot, after I enter my full disk encryption password, I see Ubuntu display the following message (I believe that's a package called Plymouth):
Waiting for network configuration...
then
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Ubuntu booting screen missing in 15.04 desktop
I installed Ubuntu 15.04 using Unetbootin. (dual boot with windows 7). But on booting Ubuntu I get a pink screen (same color as grub default background) which changes to black after a few seconds (...
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Black screen after boot in Ubuntu 15.04 (x86_64), Intel HD5500 (i915 driver) [duplicate]
I know this question has been asked so many times (since 2011 from what I found out), but none of the responses seem to resolve the issue in my laptop, so apologies for the repetition.
I tried ...
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New install on HP laptop causes screen to flicker
Installed the latest Ubuntu (ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64) on my ol' HP using LinuxLive USB Creator and a pendrive. Set the boot options as usual in BIOS to read that first. Install went beautifully. ...
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Customize splash screen on live CD. || Initrd.lz problem
I try to customize splash screen on live CD session LUBUNTU 14.04.
According to this solution, i need to edit initrd.lz file and replace with my own plymouth theme.
So..
# cd extract-cd/casper
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Stuck on splash screen on boot, can't type into tty terminal
After some upgrades (I believe it was for Ubuntu 12.04, wasn't me that ran the upgrade), the boot process became stuck on the splash screen (purple, dots moving along). Presuming the desktop manager ...
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Plymouth Interrupted during boot
I have installed a plymouth theme on my machine (Ubuntu Gnome 15.04) and before an update to systemd, everything worked. Now even with the kernel parameters as such:
quiet loglevel=3 rd.udev.log-...
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How to make an animated plymouth theme and apply it? [duplicate]
I know how to customize the default plymouth theme and also I know how to install other custom themes I could download from gnome-art and some websites. But I don't know how to make my own theme which ...
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What makes plymouth not shown at shu-tdown but only at boot-up?
It's very strange. How can I force plymouth shown in the 1024x768 resolution at shut-down because it looks like in my case the plymouth at shut-down uses some unknown resolution or frame buffer which ...
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No shutdown splash screen on Ubuntu with new Nvidia card and D-sub monitor
I use Nvidia driver 346 and
I have followed the instructions of this link
How to fix plymouth (splash screen) in all Ubuntu releases!
But I've only managed to show the boot splash screen but not the ...
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Getting Ubuntu's default splash screen back after KDE installation & removal
I know questions similar to this one, such as this or this, have been asked and solved. However, I tried their answers and none of them worked.
As one of the askers of the questions did, I also tried ...
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Stuck at splash screen when changing to GDM
After considering it for a while, I finally decided to install GNOME onto my Ubuntu 14.04 system to give it a play and see if I it was worth switching to Ubuntu GNOME. Everything seems to be fine (...
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How to install "plymouth-greeter"?
I'm bored my plymouth, and i would like to change this.
I found on the internet nice script.
https://launchpad.net/plymouth-greeter
When I try install this i can't but it is rly old. I use Ubuntu 14....
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Black screen after plymouth at ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
Recently my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS stopped going further than plymouth.
It goes like this:
Process BIOS
process grub menu ( I choose 1st option called Ubuntu)
black screen for couple of seconds
plymouth ...
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How do I get gksu nautilus to work so I can access my encrypted hardrive from a live usb?
So I running Ubuntu on my computer, I downloaded a load of stuff, turned it off and now when I turn it on it gets stuck on the splash screen.
I've make a live USB running Ubuntu to try and get my ...
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Restoring the bootloader and login screen of Vanilla Ubuntu after installing Ubuntu Studio
I have looked at many similar questions for a while, but I've been so far unsuccessful.
I have recently installed Ubuntu Studio after installing Vanilla Ubuntu 14.04, and I am quite new to Ubuntu, ...
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full disk encryption interface on boot
Is there a way to customize the full disk encryption interface on boot? I want a different background or a blank screen showing instead of this:
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Error in sudo apt-get remove -f
I have installed kernel 3.18.2 with Cinnamon on Ubuntu 14.04.1:
john@john-G31M-S2C:~$ sudo apt-get remove -f
[sudo] password for john:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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cannot start system because of plymouthd error
I was using UBUNTU 12.04, and I tried updating it. Since then whenever I startup I get an error - "Plymouth: could not start splash: can not access a needed shared library."
After showing this error ...
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Show custom message after booting process finishes and displays boot log instead of Ubuntu logo
I want to remove boot up logo and to show booting process instead of Ubuntu logo.
This can be done by:
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Then look for the line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"...
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Activating graphical boot after "server" install
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 server on a box and then turned that box into a normal desktop installation with the installation of packages like ubuntu-desktop. Everything is working fine except the boot ...
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I want to kill off my splash screen [duplicate]
Previous title: Lubuntu splash screen problem bc of Nvidia driver.
I'm new to linux and getting under the hood of computers in general. I'm doing my research but it'll take awhile for me to gain a ...
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How to show boot messages in 14.10?
I am trying to show the boot messages but all I get is an almost black screen until I see the login manager.
I removed quiet and splash
I removed quiet and splash and added noplymouth
I removed quiet ...
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Ubuntu Splash Screen Background
I am not new to Ubuntu or anything, but I am just wanting to dabble a little deeper into Ubuntu's Inner workings. I was wondering if somebody could tell me how I can set a picture as Ubuntu's Splash ...
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Strange screen on bootup
I am having this screen to show briefly on startup every time I start Ubuntu. When Ubuntu loads I have no problems to work with it. Sometimes something similar shows on shut down but sometimes it ...
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Black screen when booting normally
My system
Laptop: Acer aspire 8930G
OS: Freshly installed Ubuntu 14.10 (64 bit)
Memory: 4 GB
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53 GHz x 2
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9700M GT / pre-installed ...
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How to Customize the Default Plymouth Theme in Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I've tried a lot to change my plymouth loading image!
I need to write my name in the place of Ubuntu!
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Fixing boot animation for 14.04
So I have a clean install of 14.04 lts, and I've installed my nvidia proprietary driver. The boot animation now is just white text on a pink screen and . . . . (4 dots), I don't know why this changed. ...