plymouth does not switch to tty1 on Xenial server

[EOLE team]

Hello,

On a Xenial server, I installed plymouth and plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo.

When the server boots:

* the logo is displayed correctly
* after some time, the logo disappear and display some text

      lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during sysinit
      lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during sysinit
    /: clean, 28973/187680 files, 199081/749568 blocks

I need to manually switch to tty1 with Alt-F1 to get the login prompt,
on Trusty the switch is automatic.

I tried every console to found the text displayed above, it is
displayed on tty7.

Regards.

    Distributor ID: Ubuntu
    Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
    Release: 16.04
    Codename: xenial

    LANG=C apt policy plymouth
    plymouth:
      Installed: 0.9.2-3ubuntu13.1
      Candidate: 0.9.2-3ubuntu13.1
      Version table:
     *** 0.9.2-3ubuntu13.1 500
            500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
         0.9.2-3ubuntu13 500
            500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Joe Kuan (joe-kuan)]

I experience the same issue with 16.04 LTS.

The only workaround I can come up with is to put the following line into /etc/rc.local (before the last line 'exit 0')

(sleep 1; chvt 1) &

I have no idea why simply putting 'chvt 1' won't work at all, beyond my knowledge. What is even more strange is that this issue doesn't occur on VM.

[Joe Kuan (joe-kuan)]

I am using the latest plymouth from 16.04 LTS.

root@neone-devel:~# LANG=C apt policy plymouth
plymouth:
  Installed: 0.9.2-3ubuntu13.4
  Candidate: 0.9.2-3ubuntu13.4
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.2-3ubuntu13.4 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status