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

[Mike Ferreira]

Update-

This is how I fixed mine... Adapt to your own system.
# look at the old directory
ls -ltrd /lib/plymouth/themes
#look at the newer plymouth directory to compare
ls -ltrd /usr/share/plymouth/themes
if differerent, mobe the old to the newer...
sudo mv /lib/plymouth/themes /usr/share/plymouth/themes
sudo gedit /usr/share/plymouth/ubuntu-sunrise/ubuntu-sunrise.plymouth

At this point, I edited that theme file to change the two file path
references from "/lib/plymouth" to "/usr/share/plymouth". This is needed
for the script to find the new path to the themes in the newer
directory...

Note that this answer was given in response #14 but was incomplete. Once
you move the files, then you need to reset the update-alternatives for
the updated default.plymouth...

#add an updated update-alternatives link to the new plymouth file directory
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-sunrise/ubuntu-sunrise.plymouth 100
#select that entry
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
# hinted at in response #13, the plymouth at boot, runs from the intramfs image, so the image needs to be updated first...
sudo update-initramfs -u
#then reboot to test
sudo shutdown -r now

If successful... mine was... then 
# remove the old default.plymouth entry from update alternatives... 
sudo update-alternatives --remove default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/ubuntu-sunrise/ubuntu-sunrise.plymouth
# check to ensure the extra entry is gone...
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

press enter to remain unchanged...

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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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