Comment 7 for bug 696431

I installed the debug version and rebooted my system twice, but the file /tmp/plymouth-greeter.log was not created. Interestingly, with the debug version the "good bye" message at shut down *does* display. I also noticed the background fading *out* at shut down. This was not the case with the version from PPA, where the background fades in on shut down. It seems some of your changes in the debug version fixed the problem partially.

The greeting text still doesn't display at start up with the debug version.

Also there is no /etc/init/plymouth-splash file in my system:
serrano@saibot:~$ ls /etc/init | cat | grep plymouth
plymouth.conf
plymouth-greeter.conf
plymouth-log.conf
plymouth-splash.conf.disabled
plymouth-stop.conf