Seeing this with other services now:
...
Setting up apport (2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apport/crashdb.conf ...
Job for apport.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status apport.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript apport, action "start" failed.
● apport.service - LSB: automatic crash report generation
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apport; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2017-10-27 08:32:10 SAST; 10ms ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 28855 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apport start (code=killed, signal=TERM)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/apport.service
└─28858 plymouth --ping
Oct 27 08:27:10 hostname systemd[1]: Starting LSB: automatic crash report
generation...
Oct 27 08:32:10 hostname systemd[1]: apport.service: Start operation timed out.
Terminating.
Oct 27 08:32:10 hostname systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: automatic crash
report generation.
Oct 27 08:32:10 hostname systemd[1]: apport.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 27 08:32:10 hostname systemd[1]: apport.service: Failed with result
'timeout'.
Setting up gir1.2-mutter-1:amd64 (3.26.1-2ubuntu2) ...
Setting up mutter (3.26.1-2ubuntu2) ...
...
strace as requested.
** Attachment added: "strace-plymouth-ping.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1722745/+attachment/4997508/+files/strace-plymouth-ping.txt
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