Installing plymouth 0.9.3-3 over the distro 0.9.3-1 had no effect on this system - amd64 - either. Steps taken with dpkg for a hash-checked .deb were:
Preparing to unpack .../plymouth_0.9.3-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking plymouth (0.9.3-3) over (0.9.3-1ubuntu7) ... Setting up plymouth (0.9.3-3) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-24-generic Apt complained about some redundancies, which I deleted. After uninstalling haveged, the system hung indefinitely once more at various advices of processes waiting, depending on the 3 restarts I tried. GDM featured variously, as did utmp. Not knowing much at that level, I can only report that plymouth 0.9.3-3 doesn't fix the hang I reported upthread. Nor does it change the lack of either keyboard or usb mouse/touchpad access for at least 90s of that hang. Another symptom, just noticed because of all the restarts, is that wireless networking gets a significant delay before kicking in after the handover to Gnome - about 30s. With the 16.04 I dual boot this machine to, wireless networking is ready to go almost as soon as the UI is up. Reinstalling haveged returns the good handover to Gnome - about 20s, but wireless networking stays slow to begin its work. Note that uninstalling plymouth 0.9.3-3 returns the listing of 0.9.3-1 to the system, but a couple of the Ubuntu display dependencies needed also to be reinstalled to get back a coherent recognisable splash screen progress. Probably time for me to get familiar with using the shell at startup. That UI looks like a real curate's egg and this is a significant bug (or set of bugs maybe). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779476 Title: Boot process hangs indefinitely. Never finishes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1779476/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
