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I've just installed new Ubuntu 11.10. The installation was successful. But when I start the Ubuntu, the splash screen does not work, and I get error (always some of these) "mountall: Plymouth command failed", "mountall: Connect to Plymouth was lost" or "Checking battery state..."

I'm sorry, if the error messages are incorrect because I translated two first of them from Finnish (my system is in Finnish) to English, so they maybe couldn't be just right.

I have already asked from our Finnish community, but they couldn't answer. Could anybody here?

Aleksi Kinnunen
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I had this problem sometimes when I have updated from beta 11.10, I dont know what the exact problem is but it shows starting lightdm fail then it stops at checking bettery state, so u need to start lightdm press ctrl + alt + F2 login and type sudo lightdm it should work. and for me I have installed gdm removed lightdm

pahnin
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After a clean install:

  1. Let the system start booting until it stops near the "battery state" message
  2. alt+f1 to open the terminal. Log in with your credentials.
  3. sudo apt-get remove nvidia-173
  4. sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
  5. if you've run "startx" earlier: rm -f ~/.Xauthority
  6. sudo reboot
  7. Happy Ubuntu'ing!

The issue seems to be with the Nvidia drivers. When you run startx, the X server looks for nvidia-173 (or 171, can't quite remember), but they seem to be faulty. Uninstalling the old driver and installing a newer one fixed the issue for me.

mingos
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