Comment 149 for bug 571707

@ Loong Jin

please accept my excuse regarding the statement that "fixing the bug in Lucid did take too long" - 10 days ist really fast.

On the other hand - and that is probably why people including me get upset so easily - the real root cause is something different and in no way addressed to you personally - it is related to plymouth:

I followed the development of Lucid since alpha stage and experienced that an enormous effort was put into plymouth to get it working somehow. This eye-candy splash screen had priority over functional features and still today plymouth is causing troubles (the normal user can't un-install it because artificially tied to mountall and cryptsetup and Canonical refuses to correct dependencies).

A lot of bug reports like this one are in my opinion related to plymouth which requires to patch 'mountall' and 'cryptsetup'. And these are really patches and no fixes, because they all have to consider not to disturb buggy plymouth. The logical way to solve this issues/bugs would be to purge plymouth and set up a good functional system.

Best regards, Ingo