BTW, my advisor on the forum suggested that this might be related to these: "But it was intertwined with another issue, and apparently a symptom of the same issue, i.e. plymouth not releasing the VT in time. http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=816942#c30 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811185#c10"