Thanks for the useful lead, Florent. While that does fix it, it's not the real problem. The real problem is that unless you set CONSOLE_SCREEN to something then the usplash init script doesn't shut down usplash at all! I've fixed this in bzr now, and am just chasing up some related problems in gdm's init script uncovered by that change.
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- [feisty]Screen corruption when usplash is enable https://launchpad.net/bugs/86606 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs