Bug#763695: console-setup is slowest part of boot, not fast as setupcon manpage tells us

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.113
Severity: minor

console-setup requires 800ms during a boot. The complete boot finishes
in 4.1 seconds. This really should not be a shell script in the long
term, but short term at least removing "fast" from the manual page
would be a good idea...

Here's a boot graph:
https://people.debian.org/~jak/boot.svg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux     1.113
ii  debconf                 1.5.53
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.113
ii  xkb-data                2.12-1

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.19-11
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian13

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.53
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-53.4
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.05-8+b1

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  kbd                     1.15.5-1
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.113

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn  console-common  <none>
pn  console-data    <none>
pn  console-tools   <none>
ii  kbd             1.15.5-1

-- debconf information:
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
* keyboard-configuration/other:
  console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
  console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
* keyboard-configuration/variant: German
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
  console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
  console-setup/guess_font:
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: de
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* keyboard-configuration/layout:
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: de

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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