Plymouth stat up just has text for the Plymouth start up screen, Shut down screen is fine and has the Ubuntu MATE log and animated dots but the start up screen does not. This is how it should look, my screen is missing logo and just has ugly text starting Ubuntu MATE:
any help would be appreciated. Other wise the testing of Oracular is going well.
Make sure that the line containing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, in "/etc/default/grub", has, as a minimum, the following 2 options:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
The "splash" tells the boot process to show the background you desire.
The "quiet" tells the boot process to suppress the display of boot-time messages that would "mess up" the display of your splash screen.
I don't know for sure but, for me, logically, it is best to tell boot to "shut up" first (the quiet option), before asking it to show the animated graphics (the splash option).
If you had to modify your grub file, you need to run
update-grub
If that doesn't fix it, the problem is somewhere in Plymouth or LightDM, but not sure where.
You are running in a Virtual machine with a virtual GPU
What do you expect ?
Make sure you have kernelmode support for this virtual GPU and then it will look beautiful again.