Failure to record successful boot

[Brian Buehrle]

I am not all that experienced with Linux/Ubuntu. I have no problem with attempting to assist, but I would need specifics as to what I would need to do next.

After a fresh install, the first thing I do is "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" followed by a reboot. On every reboot, a timer hangs up the shutdown process for 5 minutes while it's waiting for something along the lines of "Waiting for recording successful boot".

Today, I did a regular update/upgrade (as above) and started getting these errors (see attached).

Per Brian Murray's comment in a related (close) bug report, I'm attaching the output of 'strace plymouth --ping'. I used "script <filename>" to generate the output.

Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide (instructions may be needed).

Thank you!

Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

grub-common:
  Installed: 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1
  Candidate: 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages

plymouth:
  Installed: 0.9.2-3ubuntu17
  Candidate: 0.9.2-3ubuntu17
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.2-3ubuntu17 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

grub2:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1
  Version table:
     2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/universe amd64 Packages
     2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 Packages

[Brian Buehrle (bbuehrle)]

Changed affected package from grub2 to plymouth after reading site about finding a package name.