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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?

jrg
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Ubuntuser
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  • I am also having the same problem, but my shutdown shows randomly text / graphics. VGA: Intel 4500MHD. – Iradrian May 05 '11 at 11:56

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Well, it seems to be a bug. I have just reported it in launchpad. It seems to have been accepted as one. Bug id 781479 . If any of you are affected please click on the 'it affects me' to report it.

Ubuntuser
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Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and run the next command.

sudo update-initramfs -c -k all

You may be asked for you user password, this command recreates the initial ramdisk for all kernels.

Lekensteyn
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Lincity
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  • You're aware what -k all does, right? It's generally not necessary and can be omitted to safe time as it will update the current loaded kernel by default. I doubt if this solves the problem, I've had a similar issue, the startup plymouth screen is completely blue with only the upperleft corner of the screen being used. On shutdown, it showed up fine. I think it's a kernel module issue as the only difference between my maverick initrd and natty initrd is the kernel. – Lekensteyn May 08 '11 at 09:41
  • I had the SAME issue and this command fixed it . – Lincity May 08 '11 at 09:42
  • @Alaukik: have you installed new drivers then? – Lekensteyn May 08 '11 at 09:43
  • @Lekensteyn my issue is already fixed and no i have not installed newer drivers . – Lincity May 08 '11 at 09:50
  • @Ubuntuser have you tried this ? – Lincity May 09 '11 at 06:15
  • @Alukik: I have tried every solution mentioned here,nothing seems to work for me. I get the text mode while booting up and get the plymouth graphics while shutting down. its so annoying!! – Ubuntuser May 12 '11 at 04:34