Comment 2 for bug 1593261

This is a blade server install and getting enough packages installed to run apport-collect is difficult. I've attached the results of running dmesg when I see the error (dmesg-bad.out) and when I don't see the error (dmesg-good.out).

While doing this I discovered the REAL cause of the problem, it's not the splash setting, at least not directly.

The real problem is the "vt.handoff=7" option which gets added to the kernel command line. This is only added if splash is part of the settings (at least insofar as my experiments go). When that value is present, then the IPMI console viewer breaks. If I leave splash in the command line but edit the grub.cfg file directly to remove the vt.handoff=7 setting then reboot, the IPMI console viewer works again.