No boot splash screen when Lucid boots.

[Isabell Long]

I upgraded from Karmic to Lucid Alpha 3 earlier on today and have just properly rebooted since the upgrade and noticed that the boot splash appears when it shuts down but not when it boots up (the aubergine dots thing)!

 I'm sorry I cannot provide you with more information at this moment, maybe within the next few days I will do, although I don't doubt other people have/will probably experience(d) this problem or similar!

[Isabell Long (issyl0)]

I do have a NVIDIA graphics card, that probably has a lot to do with it, in fact it might not even be related to Ubuntu at all in that case...

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in xsplash.
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[Chris (angryfirelord)]

I've had a similar problem so far in Lucid, but it's an on and off type of situation. Sometimes the splash screen will appear and sometimes it won't. More than likely it's something with Plymouth.

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

Not related to xsplash.

[Yuriy Padlyak (gneeot)]

I've installed Lucid, not upgraded and there are no boot screen.

[Yuriy Padlyak (gneeot)]

The workaround I've just found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9234768 is to run next two commands:
echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
sudo update-initramfs -u

This fixes problem for me,

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.