Plymouth not shown with kernel 3.4 installed

[Marcelo Ruiz]

I installed the kernel 3.4 and it doesn't show the plymouth screen, not even the text based one when the quiet and splash options are removed from the boot options.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu30
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-030400-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 9 19:08:31 2012
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/MIB-Ubuntu/MIB-Ubuntu.plymouth
MachineType: TOSHIBA Qosmio X500
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.4.0-030400-generic root=UUID=c4318707-5c3a-4db7-9af7-5cef35c4aa2b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 plymouth:debug
ProcFB:

ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.4.0-030400-generic root=UUID=c4318707-5c3a-4db7-9af7-5cef35c4aa2b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 plymouth:debug
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/10/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: V2.90
dmi.board.name: Qosmio X500
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV2.90:bd12/10/2010:svnTOSHIBA:pnQosmioX500:pvrPQX33U-03Q022:rvnTOSHIBA:rnQosmioX500:rvrNotApplicable:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Qosmio X500
dmi.product.version: PQX33U-03Q022
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA