Comment 7 for bug 1007609

> I have some good news: The problem was caused by Plymouth. I
> simply deinstalled it & everything works fine!!!

Ok, first of all you cannot "simply" deinstall plymouth; this is a core package and the dependencies deliberately prevent its removal from the system. If you have actually removed plymouth, what you have left is no longer an Ubuntu system, so the fact that it boots for you then is immaterial to solving this bug.

Second, there is no reason that plymouth itself would be waiting for a keypress before bringing up the login screen, and no one is reporting this issue with other flavors of Ubuntu (indeed, AFAICS no one else is reporting it at all). So I don't believe this is a plymouth bug. It may be a bug in some Xubuntu-specific component, or it may be a bug in something that you've installed locally which is somehow stalling the console waiting for input.

Reassigning to xubuntu-meta.