Quite agree this is a bug (low priority though). We'll give it a look. However, it seems you have another bug, you shouldn't get 40s of black screen and be transitionned quickly to plymouth (as with upstart). Mind filing another bug report with additional debug information (let's keep this bug separated)? Attaching the journal (journactl -b) output would be helpful on this bug report.
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1432171 Title: Starting version 219 "systemd-boot" Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Everytime the system is booted up I get a "Starting version 219" which it seems is the version number for systemd. Ubuntu version: Kubuntu 15.04 Beta 1 systemd package: systemd219-4ubuntu5 "systemd-boot" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1432171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp