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 it, but not really uninstall it. What's the quickest way to do that? I'm using Precise, but I suspect a solution for 11.10 would work just as well.
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Did you try: sudo update-initramfs– mgajdaJun 19, 2012 at 0:54
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Try disabling Plymouth during grub boot. It may not have converted properly. See: askubuntu.com/q/98566/307523– WinEunuuchs2UnixJul 21, 2017 at 22:08
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For the curious, what had happened was that I was running VM images on a btrfs filsystem, which slowed it down enormously.– Jo-Erlend SchinstadDec 2, 2020 at 18:22
3 Answers
Easiest quick fix is to edit the grub line as you boot.
Hold down the shift key so you see the menu. Hit the e key to edit
Edit the 'linux' line, remove the 'quiet' and 'splash'
To disable it in the long run
Edit /etc/default/grub
Change the line – GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
And then update grub
sudo update-grub
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Removing quiet and splash removes the splash, but I still only have a purple screen with no text. What I want to do, is to see the actual boot messages. Jan 25, 2012 at 22:25
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3Interesting, it does not behave that way for me. At any rate, you can disable plymouth with
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled
, move it back when you are done.– PantherJan 25, 2012 at 22:32 -
1It shows the boot process messages i want to see on a server, sweet!!! Sep 15, 2014 at 16:22
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1Plymouth has to be one of the worst UIs I've come across. It uses the same text box for entering a user name as the password. It looks like you are being prompted for a password so you type it and in plain text is your password for the world to see!– RyanNerdOct 27, 2016 at 7:28
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How about pressing CTRL+ALT+F2
for console allowing you to see whats going on.. You can go back to GUI/Plymouth by CTRL+ALT+F7
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Don't have my laptop here right now, but IIRC Plymouth has upstart job in /etc/init
, named plymouth???.conf, renaming that probably achieves what you want too more permanent manner.
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[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F2] gave me a black screen with a blinking cursor at the top left, that's all. Dec 3, 2013 at 8:46
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If you just want to see the message for a single boot (vs. a permanent change), you should be able to press the ESC key to hide the splash screen and reveal the boot console.