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The spinning animation doesn't indicate a plymouth bug; plymouth itself is running, it just hasn't been instructed to stop. Nor is the ureadahead failure typically a bug (though it's a bug that the message is displayed), and would not stop the boot from continuing. Is it possible that the delay is caused by a running disk fsck, and that we're failing to display a message for this when using the text fallback? (Just a shot in the dark - if it were an fsck, rebooting should put you right back into an fsck...) How often does this happen? Can you try uninstalling the binary nvidia drivers to test whether this is reproducible with the KMS driver? Can you also test whether it's reproducible when not passing 'splash' on the kernel commandline? ** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: ureadahead (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Default Plymouth theme is sometimes stuck in the loading animation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs