usplash graphic disappears halfway through liveCD-boot

[maf at appgate.com]

Subject: usplash graphic disappears halfway through liveCD-boot
Package: usplash
Version: 0.5.5
Severity: normal

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The usplash splash-screen disappears half-way through the boot process
when booting a gutsy live-CD. After some debugging I found that this
happens when the casper-scripts figure out the x-configuration
(/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/20xconfig).

I worked around it by basically copying
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/usplash to 
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/21usplash. This has the
effect of restarting usplash after X has been configured. It is not the
most elegant solution but at least it improves the situation for me.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers gutsy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy-security'), (500, 'gutsy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-11-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages usplash depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.14         Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools           0.85eubuntu19  tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                     2.6.1-1ubuntu9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libusplash0               0.5.6          userspace bootsplash library

usplash recommends no packages.

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