Comment 7 for bug 444362

These are definitely not from sysvinit scripts, they happen much earlier - and a number of them are definitely kernel messages:

[ 28.893465] type=1505 audit(1255945942.583:2): operation="profile_load" pid=595 name=/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession

There are a number of such messages, as well as messages from the ext3 driver:

[ 27.380727] EXT3-fs: dm-4: orphan cleanup on readonly fs

and a message when swap starts:

[ 31.382239] Adding 1048568k swap on /dev/mapper/dario-swap. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1048568k

as well as one when the kernel considers whether it has a hibernate image to resume from:

[ 15.183599] PM: Starting manual resume from disk

AFAICS, none of these messages should appear when booting with 'quiet'.

This is high-priority for lucid, although now that usplash is on by default in karmic again it doesn't need to be fixed for the karmic release.