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Environment: Ubuntu 24.04, kernel Linux 6.10.9-1-t2-noble, wayland, amdgpu, AMD Radeon™ Pro 580X, mesa driver, MacPro 7,1.

At shutdown if I want to show the non-quiet splash and select "Esc" key I see corrupted text in every line similar to:

Font characters displayed as squares in Ubuntu 18.04

Trying to reset font cache next.

That didn't work.

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  • is there any thing unusual about your initrd? In my case, I have added dropbear to it.
    – Tim Richardson
    Commented Oct 20 at 10:05

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Reset to default
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I see this too. Here is a screen shot.enter image description here

Plymouth is somehow causing this.

The best workaround in my opinion is to change the plymouth theme to to a text theme.

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth 100

sudo update-alternatives --set default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth

sudo update-initramfs -u

this makes the login process not too ugly and I don't get the systemd rendering errors.

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