[Bug 1970069] Re: Annoying boot messages interfering with splash screen, since upgrading to Jammy

[João Pedro Seara]

Hello,

I have spin up two VMs with the exact same specs, one using the 20.04.4
Desktop ISO and other the 22.04 Desktop ISO.

Please check the attached file "Screencast from 24-04-2022
16:39:39.webm".

GRUB config for both VMs:

GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

As you can see, the 22.04 VM is definitely more verbose, taking splash
screen out of the way.

And please remember these are VMs. On my real hardware I get even
messages that are interfering even more (just some low severity Kernel
warnings that already existed before in Focal but they weren't
interfering with the splash screen) (check attached file
20220422_014058.jpg).

The boot time is the same so this is definitely a low prio/cosmetic
thing. But still something has changed that shouldn't.

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Title:
  Annoying boot messages interfering with splash screen, since upgrading
  to Jammy

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since upgrading from 20.04.6 Desktop to 22.04, the boot screen is not
  as clean as it used to be.

  Basically, the flow used to be in 20.04:

  GRUB > Splash screen > Login prompt

  Currently in 22.04:

  GRUB > Splash screen > Messages (in the attached file) > Splash screen
  again for a sec > Login prompt

  All of those messages already existed in 20.04, the difference is that
  they were not appearing during boot.

  I was able to get rid of the "usb" related messages by just adding
  "loglevel=0" in GRUB. Currently is "quiet loglevel=0 splash".

  However, the fsck related message, I was not available to get rid of.

  Something definitely changed here. To me, these messages are not of
  enough relevance to be shown at boot by default.

  Obviously a minor issue, but important to the whole look and feel of
  the OS for desktop.

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