Comment 12 for bug 765735

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 01:03:36PM -0000, Michael Neuffer wrote:
> I wouldn't know, since plymouth and all those graphical gadgets did
> nothing but create a world of hurt for me, I gave up on it and always take
> out all graphical booting nonsense immediately after an installation on
> any of the zoo of Debian and Ubuntu servers and clients that I maintain.

"Taking out the graphical booting nonsense" is precisely the reason you are
affected by this bug.

> One of the reasons beeing that booting with more then one encrypted device
> didn't work.

There are no open bug reports about such an issue.

> I want to know what is happening (or failing) behind the curtains during
> the boot process. Otherwise I could instead use OS X or Windows.....

You always have access to this information by pressing 'Esc' to toggle the
details plugin.

> A config file is very acceptable for me. Those who don't want it can
> switch it off. Those who don't want to stay blind and uninformed will
> switch it on.

> @Steve: Don't you agree?

No, I 100% disagree. This bug report is relevant because the server
install, by request of the server team, uses the plymouth details plugin by
default instead of a splash screen. *Desktop* users who have gone out of
their way to modify the boot experience have made their own bed, and
accomodating such deviations from the defaults is not a priority.