I found something suspicious in the debug logs on my workstation; systemd finds some conflicts in the (arguably weird) plymouth startup logic: [ 52.000281] apollon systemd[1]: Switching root. [ 53.646897] apollon systemd[1]: plymouth-quit.service: Looking at job plymouth-quit.service/stop conflicted_by=yes [ 53.646943] apollon systemd[1]: plymouth-quit.service: Looking at job plymouth-quit.service/start conflicted_by=no [ 53.646978] apollon systemd[1]: plymouth-quit.service: Fixing conflicting jobs plymouth-quit.service/stop,plymouth-quit.service/star t by deleting job plymouth-quit.service/start [ 53.647014] apollon systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Looking at job plymouth-start.service/stop conflicted_by=yes [ 53.647048] apollon systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Looking at job plymouth-start.service/start conflicted_by=no [ 53.647081] apollon systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Fixing conflicting jobs plymouth-start.service/stop,plymouth-start.service/s tart by deleting job plymouth-start.service/start