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I recently installed Lubuntu 22.04 on my HP laptop and today I decided to remove the Plymouth splash screen permanently and view the "old school" boot messages instead. At first, I tried to do this by removing "quiet" and "splash" next to the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" entry in GRUB. That didn't remove the splash screen, so I decided to remove Plymouth altogether using Synaptic and some instructions I found on a website. While that successfully removed the splash screen, the boot messages do not show at all when the system is starting up, nor does pressing the "Esc" key make them appear. I've tried three or four different solutions, including uncommenting "GFXMODE" and changing the parameter to "text," but to no avail. Does anyone know of a way I get the boot messages to appear reliably each time I start the OS? :-)

In case it helps, here is one of the pages where I sought information t resolve this problem...

How to enable boot messages to be printed on screen during boot up?

Thank you for your time and any help you can offer! :-)

Regards...

ardvark71
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Let me preface this by saying you may need to completely uninstall "plymouth" and all plymouth related packages, including the configuration files located in the "/usr/share/plymouth" directory, for this to work. However, please be warned, even though I didn't experience any problems myself, this may have unintended consequences and create errors and other problems in your operating system, including a failure to boot, from what I've heard. Just try just editing the GRUB file in "etc" first and see if that works for you. :-)

Per guiverc's suggestion, I decided to post what I did to resolve the issue in case it helps anyone else. After reading sudodus's and guiverc's questions and suggestions, I did the following...

  1. I brought up the file manager "pcmanfm-qt" and went to the location "/etc/default/grub" to see if I could find the GRUB file I didn't see in my initial search. Praise God I did this time! :-)

  2. I brought up a terminal or command line window (QTerminal) and used the "gksudo pcmanfm-qt" command to bring up a file manager in root, where I was able to access and open the GRUB file (using gedit) in "/etc/default/grub" and modify the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" line to look like this...

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

PLEASE NOTE: The "gksu" package has been deprecated and has not been offered in the repositories since 16.04, I believe. Therefore, unless you install the necessary packages manually, you will not be able to use the command I used above. Now, one way to open a file manager in root is to use the "pkexec" command, or specifically pkexec pcmanfm-qt (in the case of Lubuntu.) However, I ran into errors trying to use "pkexec" that I didn't know how to resolve, so I just installed "gksu," a program that I'm used to and like better. There are probably ways to accomplish the same task using the terminal but I'm not well versed enough with the CLI to offer suggestions using that method. Please see the following pages linked to below for more information...

https://itsfoss.com/gksu-replacement-ubuntu/

How to configure pkexec?

  1. I then saved the changes, closed all the windows I had opened and then opened up a new terminal window and ran the command sudo update-grub and waited for the program to complete its work. I then closed the window and rebooted the system.

  2. Voila! Problem solved, praise be to God! I now have lots and lots of boot messages! :-D

Thank you to everyone on Ask Ubuntu who has posted answers to help others resolve their Ubuntu (or Ubuntu flavor) related issues! Your help is very much a blessing! :-)

Regards...

ardvark71
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