Ubuntu – Mountall fails on startup

plymouth

After Ubuntu boots, the tty1 Ctrl+Alt+F1 shows this:

Thegatorade-PC login: mountall: disconnected from Plymouth
mountall: Event failed

This happened after partitioning with gparted and happens every time I use Ubuntu.

Try deleting the swap partition and re-creating it.

To do so Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command below.

sudo fdisk -l

to locate the device name for the partition you are going to format.

swap file must be turned off.

sudo swapoff -a

Remove swapfile:

sudo rm -rf /swapfile

To create

sudo mkswap /dev/sda5

Replace sda5 with you device name.

At this point you get a new UUID. Use that to update your /etc/fstab file with the new UUID for your swap partition.

After that:

sudo swapon -a

to tell Ubuntu to use the new swap partition.

Or you can use gparted. To install

sudo apt-get install gparted

Try the following solution that works for several intel integrated graphics types:

In a terminal:

sudo su
echo FRAMEBUFFER=y > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
update-initramfs -u
exit

I have experienced the same error when I first installed Ubuntu 13.10 on the toshiba harman/kardon this week.

I solved the error with a single command:
Open a Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type:

sudo chown -R $USER: /lib/plymouth

Then all the permission issues are solved and the error is gone in the next boot.