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I've just installed new Ubuntu 11.10. The installation was successful. But when I start the Ubuntu, the splash screen does not work, and I get error (always some of these) "mountall: Plymouth command failed", "mountall: Connect to Plymouth was lost" or "Checking battery state..."

I'm sorry, if the error messages are incorrect because I translated two first of them from Finnish (my system is in Finnish) to English, so they maybe couldn't be just right.

I have already asked from our Finnish community, but they couldn't answer. Could anybody here?

Aleksi Kinnunen
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  • If this is a new install - please add to your grub boot options "nomodeset xforcevesa acpi=off" - if this works - try combinations of these 3 options to find which allows you to boot correctly. – fossfreedom Oct 14 '11 at 13:31
  • Where can I do that? – Aleksi Kinnunen Oct 14 '11 at 13:43
  • try the following AU Question and answer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38780/how-to-set-nomodeset-for-installation/38834#38834 – fossfreedom Oct 14 '11 at 13:50
  • set it for "nomodeset quiet splash", but it still says "Checking battery state...". Secondly it went longer than before. What could I do? – Aleksi Kinnunen Oct 14 '11 at 15:23
  • have you tried "acpi=off" and "xforcevesa" and "xforcevesa acpi=off" etc etc?? - dont forget - Since this is an Question and Answer site, add what you have tried as an edit of your question. – fossfreedom Oct 14 '11 at 15:37
  • also - press shift on boot to display your grub - choose recovery mode console. type more /var/logs/lightdm - is their an error in there with ".Xauthority" ?? if there is try sudo rm /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority and rebooting. – fossfreedom Oct 14 '11 at 15:46
  • If I understood correctly, I started recovery mode and opened admin's terminal and I typed that command in terminal. It says that the file isn't exist.

    And I have also tried your commands like "ro quiet splash xforcevesa acpi=off; acpi=off; xforcevesa; [none]; xforcevesa acpi=off; quiet splash xforcevesa; quiet splash; ro quiet splash xforcevesa; quiet splash acpi=off; ro quiet splash acpi=off; quiet splash xforcevesa acpi=off" but none of them didn't work.

     – Aleksi Kinnunen Oct 14 '11 at 16:55
  • Actually the error messages oftenly comes after "Starting Lightdm". – Aleksi Kinnunen Oct 14 '11 at 17:02
  • @Aleksi I filed a bug that sounds similar a while ago. Your issue could be hardware-related. Could you post some more information on what hardware (i.e., monitor, graphics) you are using, and whether any of the workarounds mentioned in the bug report help you? If so, you may want to mark yourself as affected there. – Knowledge Cube Oct 26 '11 at 04:31

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I had this problem sometimes when I have updated from beta 11.10, I dont know what the exact problem is but it shows starting lightdm fail then it stops at checking bettery state, so u need to start lightdm press ctrl + alt + F2 login and type sudo lightdm it should work. and for me I have installed gdm removed lightdm

pahnin
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After a clean install:

  1. Let the system start booting until it stops near the "battery state" message
  2. alt+f1 to open the terminal. Log in with your credentials.
  3. sudo apt-get remove nvidia-173
  4. sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
  5. if you've run "startx" earlier: rm -f ~/.Xauthority
  6. sudo reboot
  7. Happy Ubuntu'ing!

The issue seems to be with the Nvidia drivers. When you run startx, the X server looks for nvidia-173 (or 171, can't quite remember), but they seem to be faulty. Uninstalling the old driver and installing a newer one fixed the issue for me.

mingos
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