Comment 5 for bug 550061

which version of plymouth do you have?
You can check this by running in a terminal the command
apt-cache policy plymouth
On 26/04/2010, Claudio Moretti <email address hidden> wrote:
> On 26/04/2010, Guy Van Sanden <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Yes, it shows at boot but only the purple bar at the bottom on shutdown
> >
> >
> > --
> > Plymouth not showing on shutdown/restart
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550061
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
> > Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> >
> > Bug description:
> > Binary package hint: plymouth
> >
> > Plymouth is showing at boot (though in 640x480 mode), but at shutdown I only see a purple bar at the bottom of the screen, the rest is black and there is some flickering inbetween.
> >
> > ProblemType: Bug
> > Architecture: amd64
> > Date: Sun Mar 28 07:59:03 2010
> > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> > MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision M4400
> > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> > Package: plymouth 0.8.1-1ubuntu1
> > PccardctlIdent:
> > Socket 0:
> > no product info available
> > PccardctlStatus:
> > Socket 0:
> > no card
> > ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-17-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash
> > ProcEnviron:
> > LANGUAGE=en_DK:en_GB:en
> > LC_CTYPE=C
> > PATH=(custom, user)
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
> > ProcFB:
> > 0 EFI VGA
> > 1 VGA16 VGA
> > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
> > SourcePackage: plymouth
> > Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
> > dmi.bios.date: 10/30/2009
> > dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
> > dmi.bios.version: A18
> > dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
> > dmi.chassis.type: 8
> > dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
> > dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA18:bd10/30/2009:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionM4400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
> > dmi.product.name: Precision M4400
> > dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
> >
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> >
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