Ubuntu
plymouth package

  1. Bug #1235231
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1235231

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: ci-info: eth0 not reliable in latest saucy images

So, some more information..
this bug is "fixed" by doing:
  for x in /etc/init/plymouth*; do sudo mv $x $x.disabled; done

after doing so 100% of /dev/console output makes it to the console (whoohoo!).

that lays this squarely on plymouth.
There is some conversation with slangasek, smoser and utlemming at
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/10/04/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t18:07 .

Steve thinks its not entirely unreasonable to just disable plymouth via .override files in cloud-images. I think he would suggest that that be done at the package level and be handled by cloud-init. That wasn't clear to me though.

Given the above, this is clearly a plymouth bug, its supposed to replay output that it captured, but it is losing some.