Karmic Usplash update from 0.5.4.0 to 0.5.4.1 on 10/9/09

[Daniel Chen]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Doyle <tomd at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> Today  an update of Karmic Usplash causes my Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 to show
> garbled symbols that look like blue Chinese letters and no Login Prompt.
>
> I narrowed it down to usplash by installing updates one at a time and
> then rebooting until the tty was no longer working.
>
> I was wondering if this had anything to do with the fact I have a Nvidia
> grapics card using the proprietary  185 drivers.

Are you certain that reverting the proprietary drivers to
185.18.36-0ubuntu3 results in the same corruption?