This still looks like the getrandom() hang described in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897572. This was
caused by the fix in the kernel for CVE-2018-1108. Two complementary
fixes have been discussed in the Debian bug neither of which modify the
kernel. The first is a change to the Plymouth package to avoid
fontconfig generating uuids, which reportedly has the added bonus of
speeding up boot compared to pre-CVE-fix times. The second is a change
to randutils in the utils-linux package so they don't block on
getrandom().

There's a link to the updated plymouth package which I tried:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/plymouth/download

Unfortunately all I got was a black screen, with or without haveged
installed. This is not the getrandom hang. The screen remains black and
no log is displayed. I suspect this is because some modification to the
package or config files is needed for Ubuntu. Or maybe some other
package needed reconfiguring due to the change plymouth. I'm no Ubuntu
expert.

As I stated in comment #48, if these fixes indeed work, when properly
incorporated into Ubuntu, they are preferable to backing out the CVE
fix.

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