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Offline vayu

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I just installed patience and it has a special theme while booting, how do I get the debian style text boot messages instead of the graphical one?
« Last Edit: 2018/01/14, 22:04:12 by vayu »

Offline unklarer

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Re: How do I get the debian style boot messages
« Reply #1 on: 2018/01/14, 13:36:25 »
/etc/default/grub
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet systemd.show_status=1"
then
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update-grub

Offline vayu

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Re: How do I get the debian style boot messages
« Reply #2 on: 2018/01/14, 19:38:36 »
That didn't do it.  That line is already in there.  There's a file /etc/default/grub.d/siduction.cfg that sets the theme. I can't see where that file is called nor do I know what to set the theme line to in order to unset the theme.  I've looked everywhere in /etc/grub.d but don't see where the siduction config is called and the code in those files is a bit much for me to read and I don't want to experiment.

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Re: How do I get the debian style boot messages
« Reply #3 on: 2018/01/14, 19:47:12 »
Here is the section from my /etc/default/grub, and I have no theme during booting:


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GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
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Re: How do I get the debian style boot messages
« Reply #4 on: 2018/01/14, 21:04:27 »
As in other cases where config directories exist (like sources.list.d/*), as long as /etc/default/grub.d/siduction.cfg exists its content will override /etc/default/grub
So either move that file away to a save place or just
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apt remove patience-grub-theme
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Re: How do I get the debian style boot messages
« Reply #5 on: 2018/01/14, 21:42:26 »
@der_bud: looks like a little bit of overkill
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# LANG=C apt remove patience-grub-theme                                          :(
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  patience-lxqt-artwork patience-sddm-settings
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  patience-common-settings patience-grub-theme patience-lxqt-settings
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 327 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

it might be a more sensible approach just to comment out not needed lines
« Last Edit: 2018/01/14, 21:48:53 by melmarker »
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Re: How do I get the debian style boot messages
« Reply #6 on: 2018/01/14, 21:44:37 »
@vayu - have a look into grub-mkconfig
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Offline vayu

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Re: How do I get the debian style boot messages
« Reply #7 on: 2018/01/14, 22:01:22 »
Thanks all.  Commenting out the line "GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/patience/theme.txt" in the file /etc/default/grub.d/siduction.cfg did the trick.