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Plymouth Screen Freezes After Installing JetBrains Toolbox on Ubuntu 24.04

I'm having an issue where my Plymouth screen freezes (I hope I'm using the right term). Attached is a screenshot of the problem (https://photos.app.goo.gl/te1yDE1TqPhNeNa5A). This has happened to me ...
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Boot stuck after update Kubuntu 22.04

So I have been distro hopping a bit lately and one thing that has been happening is that after an update my machine just won't boot. At first I had KDE Neon when this happened. At first I thought it ...
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Booting with nvidia drivers only without splash

When booting up my laptop (with a dedicated nvidia GPU inside) I found that very often it will not boot into the desktop -- for example when the HDMI monitor is hooked up. Sometimes even without ...
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Overcoming black text and blank screens between plymouth and gdm-login boot stages

In Ubuntu 18.04.2, I would like to show a consistent background image from the start of Grub2 to the appearance of the GDM login screen. I have customized the ubuntu-logo plymouth theme to show the ...
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Splash screen showing on shut down but not at boot

I have a PC with an nvidia card and ubuntu 16.04. My splash screen only shows up when i shut down the computer, but not when I boot. I followed instructions to fix for nvidia cards and other fixes but ...
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Plymouth Bootloader not intercepting keyboard input?

I recently installed the NVIDIA drivers for my computer's GTX 1080. After doing this, the Plymouth boot animation I am using fails to intercept passwords correctly. Instead of Plymouth getting the ...
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Ubuntu and other distros get stuck on splash screen

I've tested: Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 15.10 Elementary OS 0.4 Linux Mint 18 All these distributions get suck at the same part: splash screen. I press ESC to watch what's going on in the terminal and all ...
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Stuck at boot after updating Nvidia drivers

I just installed Kubuntu (latest version) on dual boot with Windows 8.1 on my ASUS laptop. My boot manager is rEFInd. I installed Kubuntu without grub (using ubiquity -b) and it installed and worked ...
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Proprietary Nvidia Driver: Broken boot screen

When I first booted Ubuntu Studio, the Logo with the spinning bars was shown correctly upon startup. Ever since I installed the proprietary Nvidia driver, the splash screen is broken and I have not ...
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I want to kill off my splash screen [duplicate]

Previous title: Lubuntu splash screen problem bc of Nvidia driver. I'm new to linux and getting under the hood of computers in general. I'm doing my research but it'll take awhile for me to gain a ...
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How to fix plymouth to it's default

So today the new Ubuntu release came out. I uninstalled my Nvidia drivers, made the upgrade and then installed the latest Nvidia blob from Xorg edgers. Before the upgrade, my boot and shutdown splash ...
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How can I disable graphical boot, yet start x during boot?

My question I am not attached to the splashscreen or whatever. How can I configure a non-graphical boot that still takes me to the login screen? In other words, I do want X to start as the last thing ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Checking battery state... [OK]" and login incorrect

I have quite a famous problem as it seems: while booting, the computer displays Checking battery state... [OK] and then hangs. * Starting CUPS printing spooler/server mountall: Plymouth copmmand ...
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What's the folk-lore on troubleshooting lightdm and other display manager problems?

I just spent a number of hours in trying to make my 12.04 boot again, after it put itself in a strange hang in splash screen. After many trials and errors involving false leads such as nvidia-...
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Plymouth splash not showing, purple and black on boot

I've got Ubuntu 11.10 on Asus machine with Nvidia G-Force 210M,...everything works fine, but bootscreen Plymouth splash does not show... First time I've had big resolution logo so I Googled some ...
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