So I have a clean install of 14.04 lts, and I've installed my nvidia proprietary driver. The boot animation now is just white text on a pink screen and . . . . (4 dots), I don't know why this changed. I tried to remove and install ubuntu plymouth theme but didn't work. Also, I've changed my unity desktop for gnome shell 3.10, and the same happens, just a lot of fugly text over a grey screen.
How do I get a neat ubuntu gnome boot animation or ubuntu?
I suggest reinstalling package called "plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo". it's the default plymouth theme used in ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo
Then make sure you are choosing it.
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
Then you will choose one of the installed themes (choose ubuntu-logo):
There are 4 choices for the alternative default.plymouth (providing /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth).
Selection Path Priority Status
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0 /lib/plymouth/themes/numix/numix.plymouth 100 auto mode
1 /lib/plymouth/themes/numix/numix.plymouth 100 manual mode
* 2 /lib/plymouth/themes/solar/solar.plymouth 10 manual mode
3 /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo-scale-2.plymouth 99 manual mode
4 /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth 100 manual mode
Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
Then save changes
sudo update-initramfs -u
Reboot, and check if it was solved
update-initramfs -u to fail while updating certain boot elements. If it gives you errors like "grep: /boot/3.18.0 no such file or directory" then this is likely the cause. Removing old kernel artifacts fixed the issue for me.
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May 01 '15 at 19:19