Comment 4 for bug 401063

Actually it started working for me again a few days ago. This may caused by an upgrade to usplash 0.5.33, usplash-theme-ubuntu 0.24, initramfs-tools 0.92ubuntu38, or {sysvinit-utils,initscripts,sysv-rc} 2.86.ds-61ubuntu16. I'm not sure which one (of even if it is one of these).

evanjfraser, Hantu, could you check the versions of the above mentioned packages you have installed?