I hit a similar issue, although it isn't actually related to plymouth.
In my case I had a few network devices marked as auto in
/etc/network/interfaces, including one that wasn't always present.
The ifup -a called in /etc/init/networking.conf waits a long time on
these interfaces and eventually
[Expired for plymouth (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Expired
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I had also no problem with maschine if plymouth is removed. but mountall does
depend on plymouth, which is not true, so removal with force dependency was
done.
It most certainly is true. Without plymouth, mountall can't ever prompt
you for input when the filesystem fails to mount cleanly!
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898370
Title:
ubuntu hangs during upstart boot, ie no sysinit is executed
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with sysinit i mean SystemV services
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ubuntu hangs during upstart boot, ie no sysinit is executed
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