Ok, this shows definitively that you don't have plymouth in your initramfs, so for whatever reason you are *not* using the workaround from bug #540801. So this *is* the same as bug #540801, the only outstanding question is why the workaround didn't take effect for you.
What is the output of 'uname -r' by itself?
What is the output of 'ls /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d'? And of 'cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash'?
> Step 1: zcat /boot/initrd. img-$(uname -r) | cpio -t | grep plymouth
> 36924 blocks
Ok, this shows definitively that you don't have plymouth in your initramfs, so for whatever reason you are *not* using the workaround from bug #540801. So this *is* the same as bug #540801, the only outstanding question is why the workaround didn't take effect for you.
What is the output of 'uname -r' by itself?
What is the output of 'ls /etc/initramfs- tools/conf. d'? And of 'cat /etc/initramfs- tools/conf. d/splash' ?