I am also affected by this issue. Using Karmic Alpha 5 - 32 bits (Ver. 12 September/09) in a HP Pavilion dv2872la laptop.
Once I click in the restart/shutdown option in Gnome, the screen flickers momentarily with the text content of the console shown with CRTL + ALT + F8, and then, the Ubuntu usplash screen appears. -- Text console messages are displayed briefly during shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348440 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs