garbled display on system shutdown/restart

[Alex Peters]

The attached photo shows my HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook about to restart.

Visible in the photo are lines of text whose cursor has not returned to the left-hand side of the screen after newlines have been output, and five graphical dots in the middle of the screen.

I assume that the shutdown screen should be similar in appearance to the startup screen--that is, the five dots shown with a Ubuntu logo above them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu26
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 20 12:44:59 2011
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6500 Notebook PC
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=7ceba223-c023-4c5b-825d-6680919457f0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=7ceba223-c023-4c5b-825d-6680919457f0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-12 (7 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/04/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.05
dmi.board.name: 30CC
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 79.10
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.05:bd04/04/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv6500NotebookPC:pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30CC:rvr79.10:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv6500 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard