I messed around with this a little today, inspired by the news of the new kernel vt-switchless resume support. You can definitely work around this by doing:
printf "\033[0;30m" > /dev/tty7 clear > /dev/tty7 However, the real bug here is with upstart. It seems that upstart chooses to execute a few of the old init.d scripts before running the upstart formatted /etc/init/plymouth.conf. plymouth should be the first thing to run after the X server is destroyed, not some K20 scripts in /etc/rc.d -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967229 Title: Text mode shown briefly with various "cryptic" texts when logging out or shutting down To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/967229/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
