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I know questions similar to this one, such as this or this, have been asked and solved. However, I tried their answers and none of them worked.

As one of the askers of the questions did, I also tried KDE just out of curiosity, but later, I realized I had plenty with Unity, so I uninstalled it. The only thing that is left to bring my machine to normal is the splash screen.

When I installed KDE, the original Ubuntu's splash screen:

Ubuntu's splash screen

mutated to an ugly screen where I could read "Kubuntu 14.04" with red little pixels.

I have been able to remove that screen following the answers of the questions I linked above. But as a result, I have no splash screen, it goes black with a _ blinking in the upper left corner until the login screen appears.

As I said before, I have already tried the solutions of these other answers, including

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

which let's me choose between 2 options (one of them apparently duplicated): plymouth, but none works. Also

$ sudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash

FRAMEBUFFER=y

$ sudo update-initramfs -u

does not work either.

The reason why they don't work might be that, before I found these solutions, I removed with rm all files in the plymouth folder whose names started by kubuntu (kubuntu*). Also, I replaced the content of /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymout to exactly match:

[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Ubuntu Logo
Description=A theme that features a blank background with a logo.
ModuleName=script

[script]
ImageDir=/lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo
ScriptFile=/lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.script

EDIT: This is the output of the sudo apt-get install --reinstall plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo command:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo
[sudo] password for antortjim:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/21.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 518027 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo_0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo (0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1) over (0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1) ...
Setting up plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo (0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.2) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits. Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

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  • Possible duplicate of How do I revert the Plymouth theme. Among other things look up plymouth themes with apt-cache search plymouth | less and then install new one that you desire. the one i use is called solar or something along those lines – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Mar 21 '15 at 22:27
  • I found the solar theme, is it the same as the original one? Also, how do I install it? Thank you – antortjim Mar 22 '15 at 08:53
  • Nope, it's a different one, but that's one i use, Ubuntu text on blue background with stars and splash of chemical reactions on the sun in the lower right corner of the screen. Pretty cool IMHO. Original is plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo i think, but don't quote me. You probably already have it so might wanna do sudo apt-get install --reinstall plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Mar 22 '15 at 19:45
  • Unfortunately, that command does not work either, even if I run sudo update-initramfs -u after it (which I have come to think that is included in the command you proposed). I am gonna paste the output of what you proposed. Thank you again – antortjim Mar 23 '15 at 19:38

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