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That's it. For some reason, my boot/shutdown screen doesn't show the spinning animation anymore.

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 with Bundgie.

I've tried almost everything, like:

  • sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

  • sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

  • Reinstalled plymouth and all packages related to it.

  • Reinstalled all plymouth themes.

  • Changed between themes and tested.

  • sudo -H gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash to insert FRAMEBUFFER=y

Can you guys help me out on this? Thanks in advance.

EDITED to show the results of sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth as suggested by @heynnema

There are 5 choices for the alternative default.plymouth (providing /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth).

Selection    Path                                                                               Priority   Status


0            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-budgie-logo/ubuntu-budgie-logo.plymouth           150       auto mode


    

  • 1            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/bgrt/bgrt.plymouth                                       110       manual mode
2            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/spinner.plymouth                                 70        manual mode
3            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-budgie-logo/ubuntu-budgie-logo-scale-2.plymouth   149       manual mode
4            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-budgie-logo/ubuntu-budgie-logo.plymouth           150       manual mode
5            /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth                         100       manual mode
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Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

Results of cat /etc/default/grub:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="hidden"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="10"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="lsb_release -i -s 2&gt; /dev/null || echo Debian"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash net.ifnames=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""


Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs


This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains


the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)


#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"


Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)


#GRUB_TERMINAL="console"


The resolution used on graphical terminal


note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE


you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'


GRUB_GFXMODE="2560x1440x16"


Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux


#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"


Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries


#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"


Uncomment to get a beep at grub start


#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
#GRUB_THEME="/usr/share/grub/themes/Vimix/theme.txt"
Rodrigo Fontes
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I am posting this as an answer because I don't have enough points to simply comment and this may be useful to anyone who stumbles across this question.

I had a similar issue upgrading from Xubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 21.04 (home folder has it's own partition so swapping distros shouldn't be a problem). I ran through similar steps as yourself including running update-initramfs but couldn't get it sorted.

Then I noticed that when I went into the 'Additional Drivers' utility, all of the options for the Nvidia proprietary driver and Nouveau were greyed out. It stated I had a manually installed driver but this shouldn't be the case because the distro was freshly installed. I had asked the distro installer to use the proprietary display drivers but presumably they should come from the repos, not as a manual install.

I followed the instructions in this answer to resolve the driver issue and it also fixed the issue with the missing Plymouth spinner during boot.

I believe the proprietary drivers aren't being configured correctly when they're installed at the same time as the distro and this may be causing the issues with Plymouth.

Fibbs
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