[Bug 1525699] Re: Error message "/sbin/plymouthd: not found" is shown on booting

[Michael F Winthrop]

In my ctrl F7 window I have been seeing:
Error Message on mine is:
/scripts/init-premount/plymouth: line 38: /sbin/plymouthd: not found
/scripts/init-premount/plymouth: line 38: /bin/plymouth: not found
Scanning for Btrfs filesystems
KXStudio-1404: recovery journal
KXStudio-1404: clean, 951037/2444624 files, 6343383/9781504 blocks
/scripts/init-bottom/plymouth: line 18/bin/plymouth: not found

I googled a bit and found:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2322684   (Plymouth unable to update spash screen)
see post # 3. I did this
also
see reference to BTRFS filesystems above:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78535/how-to-get-rid-of-the-scanning-for-btrfs-file-systems-at-start-up
How to get rid of the “scanning for btrfs file systems” at start-up?
I did this also.
Now the ctrl F7 screen is blank (no complaints) but still no desktop.
Must still use:
ctrl F1
(login)
startx
open pre-located xterm
execute
kwin -replace &

this gets a desktop, but no desktop management tools (menus, etc)
More research soon

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Title:
  Error message "/sbin/plymouthd: not found" is shown on booting

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 dev with plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu5 and on booting
  I'm seeing the error message "/sbin/plymouthd: not found" (it gets not
  logged so I'm not sure about the full output).

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