Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

["Eduard Bloch" <bloch@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.132
Followup-For: Bug #763695

Dear Maintainer,

inspired by the recent talk about systemd utilities I analyzed my boot
process on my lower-level laptop (CPU is ok but the harddisk is plain
old mechanic thing). And it's even worse than in jak's original report,
it spends 5s there and the HDD seems to be pretty busy.

Just have a look at it:
https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/.wearetheborg/

$ wc -l log
23053 log
$ grep ioctl log | wc -l
14035
OVER 9000 ioctls! Are you kidding me?

$ grep 'open\|read\|stat' log | wc -l
3881
OVER 3000 filesystem related syscalls. That all is needed to just
configure the console? Seriously?

Please find a way to cut down this activity, there must be a way to
do that.

Regards,
Eduard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.5+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux     1.132
ii  debconf                 1.5.57
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.132
ii  xkb-data                2.14-1

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.19-19
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian14

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.57
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-59
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.05-9

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  kbd                     1.15.5-2
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.132

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             1.15.5-2

-- debconf information:
* keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x14
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
  console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/layout:
  console-setup/fontsize: 8x14
  console-setup/use_system_font:
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: de
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Deutsch
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: de
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x14
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
* keyboard-configuration/other:
  console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
  console-setup/guess_font:
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generische PC-Tastatur mit 105 Tasten (Intl)
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15