root@murlidhar-desktop:/home/murlidhar#  sudo apt-get install --reinstall usplash libusplash0 usplash-theme-ubuntu ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-standard ubuntu-minimal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 80.4kB/267kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main usplash-theme-ubuntu 0.17 [80.4kB]
Fetched 80.4kB in 3s (26.4kB/s)                       
(Reading database ... 136874 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ubuntu-minimal 1.79 (using .../ubuntu-minimal_1.79_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ubuntu-minimal ...
Preparing to replace ubuntu-standard 1.79 (using .../ubuntu-standard_1.79_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ubuntu-standard ...
Preparing to replace libusplash0 0.5.7 (using .../libusplash0_0.5.7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libusplash0 ...
Preparing to replace ubuntu-desktop 1.79 (using .../ubuntu-desktop_1.79_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ubuntu-desktop ...
Preparing to replace usplash 0.5.7 (using .../usplash_0.5.7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement usplash ...
Preparing to replace usplash-theme-ubuntu 0.17 (using .../usplash-theme-ubuntu_0.17_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement usplash-theme-ubuntu ...
Setting up ubuntu-minimal (1.79) ...
Setting up ubuntu-standard (1.79) ...
Setting up libusplash0 (0.5.7) ...
Setting up usplash (0.5.7) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Setting up usplash-theme-ubuntu (0.17) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Setting up ubuntu-desktop (1.79) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
root@murlidhar-desktop:/home/murlidhar#