[Bug 1084063] Re: plymouth in raring causes system hardlock if console_setup is not run in the initramfs on nexus7 prior to starting plymouthd

[Adeel Tariq]

** Also affects: plymouth
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  plymouth in raring causes system hardlock if console_setup is not run
  in the initramfs on nexus7 prior to starting plymouthd

Status in The Plymouth splash screen:
  New
Status in Ubuntu on the Nexus 7:
  Fix Released
Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in ubuntu-defaults-nexus7 package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in plymouth source package in Raring:
  Won't Fix
Status in ubuntu-defaults-nexus7 source package in Raring:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  while i can see the splash fine if i add a break= statement to my kernel commandline and manually ctrl-d out of the initrd shell,
  using plymouth without a break statement causes a hard reboot of the system.

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