Plymouth-X11 contains the renderer to allow testing the splash screen from the desktop. To my knowledge nothing in it should be running during boot, so removing it should have no effect on plymouth actually running as a boot splash. Test this anyway, though-that's the only way to be really sure. If removing plymouth-X11 changes anything, that would seem to me to be something running when it should not be and getting into the initramfs where it should not be. I run plymouth from the initramfs to prompt for encryption passphrases and see this same bad text at that point.
On my system, replacing the libraries installed directly into /lib and not into /lib/plymouth by libplymouth , using the older version mentioned before(2ubuntu5) fixes the problem. > Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:10:30 +0000 > From: 685...@bugs.launchpad.net > To: lukek...@hotmail.com > Subject: [Bug 685352] Re: plymouth2_0.8.2-2ubuntu6 and later give ragged > splash and text rendering > > same issue on natty i386 with genuine nvidia-current 260.19.21-0ubuntu1 > > while fsck is checking the drives, the 2 lines are pixelized black/white > and mostly unreadable. I've seen this for the first time this week (> > 12/1th) and wonder about plymouth-X11 which was installed on my system. > Now i've removed it and will see the difference on next fsck run. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685352 > > Title: > plymouth2_0.8.2-2ubuntu6 and later give ragged splash and text rendering -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685352 Title: plymouth2_0.8.2-2ubuntu6 and later give ragged splash and text rendering -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
