Re-installed Plymouth

dist-upgrade which included a new kernel
Restored /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf to defaults to hopefully deal with complaint that some machines fail to get an IP

etc/init.d/plymouth

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:		plymouth
+# Required-Start:	udev $remote_fs $all
+# Required-Stop:	$remote_fs
+# Should-Start:		gdm gdm3 kdm xdm slim nodm
+# Should-Stop:		gdm gdm3 kdm xdm slim nodm
+# Default-Start:	2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:		0 6
+# Short-Description:	Stop plymouth during boot and start it on shutdown
+### END INIT INFO
+
+PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
+NAME="plymouth"
+DESC="Boot splash manager"
+SPLASH="false"
+
+test -x /sbin/plymouthd || exit 0
+
+if [ -r "/etc/default/${NAME}" ]
+then
+	. "/etc/default/${NAME}"
+fi
+
+set -e
+
+Start_plymouthd ()
+{
+	if ! plymouth --ping
+	then
+		/sbin/plymouthd --mode=${1} --attach-to-session
+	fi
+}
+
+for ARGUMENT in $(cat /proc/cmdline)
+do
+	case "${ARGUMENT}" in
+		splash*)
+			SPLASH="true"
+			;;
+
+		nosplash*)
+			SPLASH="false"
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+case "${1}" in
+	start)
+		if [ "${SPLASH}" = "true" ]
+		then
+			/bin/plymouth --quit
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	stop)
+		if [ "$SPLASH" = "true" ]
+		then
+			Start_plymouthd shutdown
+
+			RUNLEVEL="$(/sbin/runlevel | cut -d " " -f 2)"
+
+			case "${RUNLEVEL}" in
+				0)
+					TEXT="Shutting down system..."
+					;;
+
+				6)
+					TEXT="Restarting system..."
+					;;
+			esac
+
+			/bin/plymouth message --text="${TEXT}"
+
+			/bin/plymouth --show-splash
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	restart|force-reload)
+
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		N="/etc/init.d/${NAME}"
+		echo "Usage: ${N} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
+
+exit 0

etc/rc0.d/K02plymouth

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+../init.d/plymouth

etc/rc2.d/S21plymouth

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+../init.d/plymouth

etc/rc3.d/S21plymouth

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+../init.d/plymouth

etc/rc4.d/S21plymouth

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+../init.d/plymouth

etc/rc5.d/S21plymouth

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+../init.d/plymouth

etc/rc6.d/K02plymouth

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+../init.d/plymouth

initrd.img

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+boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3artax1-686-pae