Comment 6 for bug 510524

I'm experiencing similar behavour with with plymouth 0.8.0~-8 (kernel 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64).

After upgrade to 0.8.0~-8, first boot (with ureadahead reprofiling) went well except for missing plymouth logo. Very next boot ended with black screen, blinking text cursor upper left corner, unmovable mouser pointer in center and „ready to log in“ sound. Changing the vts back and forth resulted in gdm visible and responsible on the screen, but selecting username led to hard lockup. No chance to change vts once more, contrary to what Patrice Vetsel described in original report.

Booting without „quiet splash“ options allowed me to login (with gdm running on tty1) without problems, but the session hard locked after few minutes everytime I tried that. For now, after "sudo apt-get purge plymouth", gdm started on tty7 and session is up and running for a while without any troubles.

Only change I made some time before upgrading plymouth which can possibly affect the whole process was "sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup" for setting console font to "fixed" and keyboard to "US". Booted many times with that and previous plymouth version without problems.