Comment 22 for bug 538524

This bug has been diagnosed now, and is in progress - the problem is that plymouth quit --retain-splash now works as designed, but this is something kdm isn't expecting.

On the plymouth side, Scott has committed to dropping the --retain-splash argument when plymouth is stopped by kdm, after which kdm should start smoothly, but not flicker-free. For release, we would still want to get kdm to interact directly with plymouth the way gdm does, for a smooth transition to X.