Plymouth does not appear

[Michael Martins]

A black screen appears instead of Plymouth.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu13.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-56.61~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-56-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: /dev/sda5: clean, 251604/1602496 files, 2399672/6399902 blocks
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Jun 23 19:05:47 2017
DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/xubuntu-logo.plymouth
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-13 (71 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215)
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-56-generic root=UUID=c023b876-f3b5-4c4e-85e3-e5f41091a921 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-56-generic root=UUID=c023b876-f3b5-4c4e-85e3-e5f41091a921 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-text/xubuntu-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/24/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: AMI
dmi.bios.version: 0500
dmi.board.name: IPXPV-D3-PEGA
dmi.board.vendor: PEGATRON
dmi.board.version: 2.01
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAMI:bvr0500:bd09/24/2010:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvr:rvnPEGATRON:rnIPXPV-D3-PEGA:rvr2.01:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

[Michael Martins (michaelfm21)]

To fix it, I used the following commands:

sudo -H echo FRAMEBUFFER=y > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splas
sudo update-initramfs -u

[Michael Martins (michaelfm21)]

sudo -H echo FRAMEBUFFER=y > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
sudo update-initramfs -u