Bug#782609: systemd-sysv, plymouth: user experience: plymouth animation "hangs"

[Simon Richter]

Package: systemd-sysv,plymouth
Severity: normal

Hi,

I've recently installed jessie on a netbook (Acer Aspire One 725), with
systemd as init and plymouth to hide the startup process from the user.

The boot process is about as quick as can be expected on this system, and
plymouth is stopped before the X server starts, also as expected, which
stops the animation. From this point, the X server requires a further 20
seconds to be in a state to display the login screen, most of this time is
spent waiting for socket-activated services to start.

>From a user experience point of view, this is clearly suboptimal: the
animation presented during boot suddenly "hangs" for several seconds, and
then suddenly the login screen is shown.

>From a technical point of view, of course all packages behave exactly as
intended, however the combination gives a bad result.

   Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd-sysv depends on:
ii  systemd  215-14

systemd-sysv recommends no packages.

systemd-sysv suggests no packages.

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