Comment 5 for bug 438229

Jeremy, please be more specific.
You have been writing about usplash, and that has been disabled during normal boot.
Scrolling white text is what is expected, just because usplash is not there to hide it.

But more info is needed.
Do you see the xsplash and the xsplash background (from ubunt-xsplash-artwork) just before gdm's greeting window?