Attempting to change the plymouth theme in RHEL 6 to "rings" fails and defaults back to text

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Issue

When trying to change the default plymouth theme in RHEL 6 using plymouth-set-default-theme to any theme (i.e. "rings") the theme fails to change on a reboot and still shows the "default" bar or text.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
plymouth-0.8.3-24.el6

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