[SOLVED] - Major Maui Meltdown.

[kdemeoz]

(14th November 2016, 10:40)leszek Wrote:

Quote:P.S.: Ok new idea. Before you try anything with the nividia -> nouveau thing try first switching the plymouth theme to something else. I guess the non readable text might be an issue of the default plymouth theme (having the colors set wrongly or problems on setting them with nvidia-kms). 

So please run

Code:

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

in a terminal. It should allow you switching the default theme to spinner.plymouth at least. (by default the only other option)
Try doing that.
After that it is important to update the initramfs for the changes to also land in initrd.
So run as well:

Code:

sudo update-initramfs -u

After that try restarting with a normal boot. You should see another bootsplash and hopefully some error message whith which we can analyze whats going wrong on your machine all the sudden.

I have not yet done this in my "real" Maui, as i wanted to do a "test-run" first in one of my Maui 2 Plasma 5.8.3 VMs. So i executed both commands & rebooted the VM. I did not notice any apparent visual differences in the way that VM booted, all the way through to its Maui login screen. Wondering if i'd made an error, I redid the first command to check the current default, which as you can see in my pic has correctly changed. I wonder though about the "manual mode"... what does that mean / should i do something different as it boots?