Peter Ross writes: > I had a bit of a look around, and /bin/plymouth (formerly unknown to me) > is a fancy splash screen during boot that has to be cancelled before X can > start (If I understand correctly)
Yep. To my *immense* disgust, as at Ubuntu 10.04 it is a hard dependency of upstart, meaning that you cannot have an Ubuntu system -- even a server! -- without stupid plymouth splash crap installed. #ubuntu-boot assured me that was an oversight and it should be opt-out in 12.04, but I haven't checked yet. You can turn it off (mostly), thought IIRC that causes it to hard-hang if the boot-time fsck returns non-zero, such that you need a live medium to fix it. I can look up my notes if anyone's interested. >> I've gooogled it and tried the suggested "disable" commands for this, but it >> still happens. Remove "splash" from bootloader options is supposed to stop it, though IIRC what actually happens is that plymouth simply uses a text theme. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
