[Bug 1546393] Re: boot in xenial shows black screen instead of plymouth logo / encryption prompt

[Francisco Angel Javier Prieto]

Well I test with this...

1. sudo mkdir /lib/plymouth/themes/simple

2. Find a wallpaper you like and copy it to
/lib/plymouth/themes/simple/wallpaper.png (must be a png!)

2. sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.plymouth and paste the
following:

[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Simple
Description=Wallpaper only
ModuleName=script

[script]
ImageDir=/lib/plymouth/themes/simple
ScriptFile=/lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.script

3. sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.script and paste the
following:

wallpaper_image = Image(“wallpaper.png”);
screen_width = Window.GetWidth();
screen_height = Window.GetHeight();
resized_wallpaper_image = wallpaper_image.Scale(screen_width,screen_height);
wallpaper_sprite = Sprite(resized_wallpaper_image);
wallpaper_sprite.SetZ(-100);

4. sudo update-alternatives --install
/lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth
/lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.plymouth 100


5. sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth (select simple from the list)


6. sudo update-initramfs -u

But in this point Fail with this error

plymouth module (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth//.so) missing,
skipping that theme.

If I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure Plymouth Fail with the same error.

Then I found the paths in /usr/share/plymouth/themes so I replace point
4 with

sudo update-alternatives --install
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth 200

At point 5 I select /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-
logo.plymouth           200       modo manual

I execute point 6 and reboot... I'm testing now.

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Title:
  boot in xenial shows black screen instead of plymouth logo /
  encryption prompt

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After updating to xenial, I see nothing but a black screen after EFI
  boot successfully.  I can blindly type my disk encryption password to
  get the system to evenutally boot to a GDM prompt, but there's no
  visual feedback before that point.  At first I thought it was because
  the initrd wasn't created properly on upgrade from wily
  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1546342), but
  forcing it to regenerate by apt-get install --reinstalling the kernel
  didn't fix it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-4.19-generic 4.4.1
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-4-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Tue Feb 16 22:06:49 2016
  DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo.plymouth
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-21 (179 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150819)
  MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro11,4
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-4-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--gnome--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-4-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--gnome--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-gnome-text/ubuntu-gnome-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-02-16 (0 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/05/2015
  dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: MBP114.88Z.0172.B04.1506051511
  dmi.board.name: Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5
  dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.board.version: MacBookPro11,4
  dmi.chassis.type: 9
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP114.88Z.0172.B04.1506051511:bd06/05/2015:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro11,4:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-06F11FD93F0323C5:rvrMacBookPro11,4:cvnAppleInc.:ct9:cvrMac-06F11FD93F0323C5:
  dmi.product.name: MacBookPro11,4
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.

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