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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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Can only access Ubuntu using “recovery mode” or “previous versions”
The main link to use Ubuntu takes me to a dark screen.
Is there anything I can do while in recovery mode to fix this? I currently cant access the internet once I upgraded to the 12.04LTS.
Any ideas?
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display sleep on server without X
I installed Ubuntu on to a laptop which has since been repurposed to be a family server. I disabled lightdm at startup by deleting /etc/init/lightdm.conf, since running an X server is a waste of ...
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Black screen and blinking cursor for a while during Startup
I've installed the Ubuntu 12.04.1 "rock solid" release. Everything works fine apart from the fact that during start-up the usual purple screen and Ubuntu logo doesn't appear. Only a black screen and ...
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An error occurred while mounting /home @Splash Screen HELP!
I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 installed on a USB ever since the release.
Just today when I booted up, I see an error showing up at my splash screen saying
An error occurred while mounting /home
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Plymouth boot screen not showing after enabling Nvidia drivers
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with Wubi, When I first installed Ubuntu I could see the splash screen with the blinking dots, But after a couple of days it vanished (I've Nvidia drivers installed).
I ...
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Why can't my computer boot up and start X on its own? [closed]
(Fresh install)
My lenovo thinkpad w510 will not complete a startup without my intervention.
It will attempt to start up normally, but then the ubuntu loading splash would go away, and i'd get thrown ...
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Installed fglrx. Plymouth using text theme [duplicate]
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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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Why does plymouth start so late?
It appears that starting with 11.04 Plymouth starts so late in the boot process. Sometimes I only have a split second to see it before it transitions to the login screen. This is the same for 11.10.
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How do I speed up boot time? [duplicate]
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How do I improve boot speed?
I am dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows 7. When I select Ubuntu at the GRUB menu, a blinking cursor in a black screen comes and takes some ...
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Can I edit my boot splash to any picture I want to? [duplicate]
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How can I get some nice eye candy themes for Grub?
I want the very friendly looking old mac face.
When I boot ubuntu I want this to come up instead of the purple screen ...
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Why does Plymouth boot in fallback text mode?
When starting my system, Plymouth doesn't show graphics but uses the fallback text mode. However, it runs normally (that is, with graphics) on shutdown. Why is that?
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How do I disable the boot splash screen? [duplicate]
I'd like to be able to disable the Ubuntu splash screen that I see on boot with the indicator meter of progress, and replace that with a text-only readout of the boot up process (such as you can get ...
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Splash Screen Not Showing Up?
When I boot up Ubuntu, all I get is a little blinking underscore at the top left side of my screen. I am using splash screen manager and activated a picture to start at boot up, but it doesn't show ...
