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makitso
May 14th, 2010, 12:59 AM
Upgraded to 10.04 with proprietary Nvidia driver. No plymouth at boot, but dmesg gives error below. On shutdown get large plymouth display. Tried several hints but none work.

2.985912] 1179648 pages RAM
[ 2.985914] 951810 pages HighMem
[ 2.985915] 149486 pages reserved
[ 2.985916] 642 pages shared
[ 2.985917] 208097 pages non-shared
[ 2.985919] Out of memory: kill process 399 (plymouthd) score 38 or a child
[ 2.985920] Killed process 399 (plymouthd)
[ 2.987802] ureadahead invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=0
[ 2.987804] ureadahead cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
[ 2.987806] Pid: 398, comm: ureadahead Not tainted 2.6.32-22-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu

morfeasrev
May 14th, 2010, 04:43 PM
Same here on ATi 5850 proprietary drivers.
No plymouth splash screen on boot, but showed on shutdown.

przemo_li
July 15th, 2010, 10:35 PM
Hi, I've got solution for plymouthd here:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/out-of-memory-kills-process-plymouthd-10-04-l/#post-2491201

splash file did not existed, create it