Comment 10 for bug 1622893

Concerning the "bootspeed" tag, the NM issue would be less noticable if "rc-local.service" was removed from "After=" in plymouth-quit.service. That way, my boot-to-graphical-login is a few seconds faster because plymouth is only visible for a very very short time instead of waiting up to 8 seconds for the network to come up. I did that using systemd override, and now my boot on kernel 4.4 is almost as fast as it was in 16.04.

Of course, technically the full boot including nmbd etc. still takes the same time because NM is still slow, but I don't really care if nmbd is up when I type my password into lightdm. The only thing that matters to me is that I can type my password and then fire up Chromium, by which time the network generally is ready to use in my case.

But maybe there's a good reason for some people to have rc.local executed (and therefor network ready to use) before starting lightdm.