Comment 279 for bug 554172

Great, thanks for your feedback, Rogi.

Plynouth in my opinion is yust a fancy boot screen which is still in an alpha stadium. Though Ubuntu team always points out it also does all logging during boot process - that is the root cause of all that and other troubles and you again did confirm that. Did you ever see any fsck properly logged in /var/log/fsck/* with Lucid?

The ugly side is that Canonical has intenionally built in a fake-dependency on plymouth in packages 'mountall' and 'cryptsetup' to force users to act as alpha/beta-testers for their buggy plymouth. I'd be willing to do such tests (to make Ubuntu better) if it is clearly explained and documented and the choice to participate is left to the user. But I do not accept the current attitude in a LTS-release!

This are hard words of a disappointed Ubuntu user and I do revoke my statements if somebody proves the opposite.