Comment 3 for bug 898370

> I had also no problem with maschine if plymouth is removed. but mountall does
> depend on plymouth, which is not true, so removal with force dependency was done.

It most certainly is true. Without plymouth, mountall can't ever prompt you for input when the filesystem fails to mount cleanly! How did you go about removing plymouth? Your bug report shows that at least parts of it are certainly installed on the system from which you filed this report.

Your report includes the following information:

> [ 1807.335818] init: Failed to spawn setvtrgb main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory

setvtrgb is part of the kbd package, which is a dependency of the core ubuntu system. Is your system in a consistent state? It sounds like either the system is not completely updated to 11.10, or critical packages are missing.

Your bug report also shows that you've modified /etc/default/grub:

> # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
> GRUB_TERMINAL=console

Did you make this change as part of debugging the plymouth problem, or was this an existing change? If you use the default graphical terminal, does that make a difference in the behavior of plymouth?

This output also suggests a possible problem:

> ProcFB:
> 0 radeondrmfb
> 1 VESA VGA

Your lspci output shows you have only one video card, but there are two framebuffer modules loaded. It's possible the kernel modules are colliding and causing a console hang, which happens to be cleared by killing plymouthd.

Finally, if you boot with the 'splash' option added to the commandline, does the system boot successfully?