When I was booting up Ubuntu, I expected the splash-screen to show without issue. However, instead i saw ascii text saying "Ubuntu 18.04", and this happens every time I boot using Wayland on my Radeon HD 6450.
I expected the regular bootscreen to happen instead.
Workaround:
Use Xorg, not Wayland.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: plymouth 0.9.3-1ubuntu7.18.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-37.40~18.04.1-generic 5.0.21
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 6 15:28:17 2019
DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
MachineType: Gateway DX4860
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-37-generic root=UUID=3c16de60-443d-4ba1-baee-e0f3153202c0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-37-generic root=UUID=3c16de60-443d-4ba1-baee-e0f3153202c0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/01/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P02-A1
dmi.board.name: IPISB-VR
dmi.board.vendor: Gateway
dmi.board.version: 1.01
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP02-A1:bd08/01/2011:svnGateway:pnDX4860:pvr:rvnGateway:rnIPISB-VR:rvr1.01:cvnGateway:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Gateway Desktop
dmi.product.name: DX4860
dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
MachineType: Gateway DX4860
Package: plymouth 0.9.3-1ubuntu7.18.04.2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-37-generic root=UUID=3c16de60-443d-4ba1-baee-e0f3153202c0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-37-generic root=UUID=3c16de60-443d-4ba1-baee-e0f3153202c0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-37.40~18.04.1-generic 5.0.21
Tags: bionic
TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-37-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 08/01/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P02-A1
dmi.board.name: IPISB-VR
dmi.board.vendor: Gateway
dmi.board.version: 1.01
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP02-A1:bd08/01/2011:svnGateway:pnDX4860:pvr:rvnGateway:rnIPISB-VR:rvr1.01:cvnGateway:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Gateway Desktop
dmi.product.name: DX4860
dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway
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