Bug#897572: plymouth: long delay before splashscreen with kernel 4.16

Ben, even though X is not involved, you are right on the money about this being caused by waiting for random bits. This is a kernel bug caused by urandom blocking when it should not. I will merge the issues when I have my final patch ready. You can see the "random: plymouthd: uninitialized

Bug#897572: plymouth: long delay before splashscreen with kernel 4.16

You are right. Seems to be the same bug. I thought that since everything works fine without plymouth that it should be fixed there but now I am not sure anymore. Also I'm not so familiar with debian bug tracker. Can or should I mark it as duplicate somehow or merge it with your bug report?

Bug#897572: plymouth: long delay before splashscreen with kernel 4.16

Looks like the same bug. We should probably merge, but into what package (linux, plymouth, or xorg)?: Bug#897958: plymouth: long delay before splashscreen with kernel 4.16 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897958 Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS