Comment 13 for bug 139453

Does the code attached to:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/60915/comments/17

fix your problem when run from the console (you need root privileges to run it)? If so, this is the same bug. Don't have a nice fix in usplash itself (I've tried in a couple obvious places and it didn't work!), but a sloppy fix would be to have the code run right after usplash.