splash does not work at boot, only quiet splash

[Noel J. Bergman]

Binary package hint: xsplash

Karmic, fully updated at time of posting.

I've generally removed splash since Jaunty due to a defective side-effect that is not present in current Karmic. So when I saw the new xsplash package, I was curious to see it.

Bottom line. If I enable splash as quiet splash, the splash screen comes up during boot and during shutdown. *BUT* if I remove quiet and just have splash, then at boot time I see the mass of text messages and NO SPLASH SCREEN. At shutdown, the splash screen is present, along with the text messages, as desired, so this is just a boot time issue.

[Vish (vish)]

This issue exists even with usplash.
Also at shutdown, the console text message "Shutting down"/ "Restarting the system" is visible for a sec.

But this is more obvious during boot.

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

This is actually usplash. Currently xsplash starts late in the boot, after usplash, so what you are seeing is usplash behaviour not xsplash. xsplash is starting when gdm starts, so only a couple seconds before the login screen. Soon it should be starting early in the boot process, so you never see usplash.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

The usplash package has been superseded by plymouth and has been removed from the Ubuntu archive. Closing all related bugs.