I think that we simply made plymouth better at deactivating, and so this is "not a bug" - the system is booting up fast enough that plymouth is not needed.
Presumably if you add "ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 5" to gdm.service you see the dots. ** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797843 Title: No progress dot during boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1797843/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs