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That's it. For some reason, my boot/shutdown screen doesn't show the spinning animation anymore.

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 with Bundgie.

I've tried almost everything, like:

  • sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

  • sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

  • Reinstalled plymouth and all packages related to it.

  • Reinstalled all plymouth themes.

  • Changed between themes and tested.

  • sudo -H gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash to insert FRAMEBUFFER=y

Can you guys help me out on this? Thanks in advance.

EDITED to show the results of sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth as suggested by @heynnema

There are 5 choices for the alternative default.plymouth (providing /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth).

Selection    Path                                                                               Priority   Status


0            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-budgie-logo/ubuntu-budgie-logo.plymouth           150       auto mode


    

  • 1            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/bgrt/bgrt.plymouth                                       110       manual mode
2            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/spinner.plymouth                                 70        manual mode
3            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-budgie-logo/ubuntu-budgie-logo-scale-2.plymouth   149       manual mode
4            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-budgie-logo/ubuntu-budgie-logo.plymouth           150       manual mode
5            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth                         100       manual mode
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Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

Results of cat /etc/default/grub:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="hidden"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="10"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="lsb_release -i -s 2&gt; /dev/null || echo Debian"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash net.ifnames=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""


Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs


This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains


the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)


#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"


Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)


#GRUB_TERMINAL="console"


The resolution used on graphical terminal


note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE


you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'


GRUB_GFXMODE="2560x1440x16"


Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux


#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"


Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries


#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"


Uncomment to get a beep at grub start


#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
#GRUB_THEME="/usr/share/grub/themes/Vimix/theme.txt"
Rodrigo Fontes
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  • I'm out of ideas, don't know what else to do. – Rodrigo Fontes Jul 07 '20 at 20:10
  • Edit your question and show me the output of sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth. Start comments to me with @heynnema or I'll miss them. – heynnema Jul 07 '20 at 21:47
  • @heynnema Here it is. – Rodrigo Fontes Jul 08 '20 at 16:34
  • Have you tried selecting #2 from that command? Then do sudo update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) and then reboot. – heynnema Jul 08 '20 at 16:54
  • @heynnema Yes, already tried. I've tried every single option from that list with no success. – Rodrigo Fontes Jul 08 '20 at 17:02
  • And you did the update-initramfs command? And you're booting to the newest kernel? Do you see the OEM logo at boot now? Show me cat /etc/default/grub. – heynnema Jul 08 '20 at 17:04
  • @heynnema Yes, I've always run update-initramfs after making changes for that matter. Yes, I'm booting to the newest kernel available. My OEM logo is showing on boot and if there is a job to run when I shut down or reboot my computer, the OEM logo is also shown with Ubuntu Logo, but in both cases the spinning wheel is gone. – Rodrigo Fontes Jul 08 '20 at 17:21
  • @heynnema I've edited the post to show you the result. – Rodrigo Fontes Jul 08 '20 at 17:23
  • Select #2 in sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth. Comment out GRUB_GFXMODE="2560x1440x16" in /etc/default/grub, then run sudo update-grub, then reboot. – heynnema Jul 08 '20 at 17:44
  • @heynnema did everything you suggested, still no spinning wheel animation. OEM logo is showed when restarting, booting or shutdown. – Rodrigo Fontes Jul 08 '20 at 17:52
  • Last try... with GRUB_GFXMODE commented out, edit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash to remove FRAMEBUFFER=y (or remove splash if that's the only thing in it). Update-initramfs. Reboot. – heynnema Jul 08 '20 at 17:55
  • Your computer is in UEFI mode, yes? – heynnema Jul 08 '20 at 17:57
  • Yes, it was working normal when I first installed Ubuntu 20.04. For some random reason it stopped, don't know why. EDIT: @heynnema Tried the last suggestion, still doesn't show the spinning wheel animation. I'm almost giving up. – Rodrigo Fontes Jul 08 '20 at 18:24
  • I'm out of ideas too. Maybe somebody else will chime in. If you figure it out, please let me know. – heynnema Jul 08 '20 at 18:51
  • No ideas but upvoting to draw more attention to question. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jul 08 '20 at 19:46

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I am posting this as an answer because I don't have enough points to simply comment and this may be useful to anyone who stumbles across this question.

I had a similar issue upgrading from Xubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 21.04 (home folder has it's own partition so swapping distros shouldn't be a problem). I ran through similar steps as yourself including running update-initramfs but couldn't get it sorted.

Then I noticed that when I went into the 'Additional Drivers' utility, all of the options for the Nvidia proprietary driver and Nouveau were greyed out. It stated I had a manually installed driver but this shouldn't be the case because the distro was freshly installed. I had asked the distro installer to use the proprietary display drivers but presumably they should come from the repos, not as a manual install.

I followed the instructions in this answer to resolve the driver issue and it also fixed the issue with the missing Plymouth spinner during boot.

I believe the proprietary drivers aren't being configured correctly when they're installed at the same time as the distro and this may be causing the issues with Plymouth.

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