I have a more positive impression about 17.10 in general and I am seeing improvement for my situation. Since an update today I can see the tty's again when fully booted and pressing ctrl-alt-f2 but still unable to see them during slow boot. dpkg.log: 2017-11-18 09:28:54 upgrade accountsservice:amd64 0.6.42-0ubuntu3 0.6.42-0ubuntu3.1 2017-11-18 09:28:54 status half-configured accountsservice:amd64 0.6.42-0ubuntu3 2017-11-18 09:28:54 status unpacked accountsservice:amd64 0.6.42-0ubuntu3 2017-11-18 09:28:54 status half-installed accountsservice:amd64 0.6.42-0ubuntu3 2017-11-18 09:28:54 status triggers-pending dbus:amd64 1.10.22-1ubuntu1 2017-11-18 09:28:54 status triggers-pending dbus:amd64 1.10.22-1ubuntu1 2017-11-18 09:28:54 status half-installed accountsservice:amd64 0.6.42-0ubuntu3 2017-11-18 09:28:55 status unpacked accountsservice:amd64 0.6.42-0ubuntu3.1 2017-11-18 09:28:55 status unpacked accountsservice:amd64 0.6.42-0ubuntu3.1 2017-11-18 09:28:55 upgrade libaccountsservice0:amd64 0.6.42-0ubuntu3 0.6.42-0ubuntu3.1 2017-11-18 09:28:55 status triggers-pending libc-bin:amd64 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