Comment 8 for bug 696431

Sorry, I meant plymouth-splash.conf. I wonder why it's disabled - how on the earth does Plymouth work without it?! This is VERY interesting, I've never seen anything like that before. Could you post the contents of plymouth.conf, plymouth-log.conf and plymouth-splash.conf.disabled?
Also, in theory the debug version of /bin/plymouth can't affect shutdown, while the updated from PPA plymouth-greeter.conf can. But that's theory... In theory the greeting must work :)
Oh, and the command you used works even without a cat in the middle ;)