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[Seth <532047@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW: I've started running with my own naive modification of
/etc/init/gdm.conf, to see whether it changes symptoms. Here the diff (I
use etckeeper with git, so this is git diff output):

diff --git a/init/gdm.conf b/init/gdm.conf
index 5600d4c..d36acdc 100644
--- a/init/gdm.conf
+++ b/init/gdm.conf
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ author         "William Jon McCann <mccann@xxxxxxx>"
 
 start on (filesystem
           and started dbus
+         and started tty1
+         and started tty2
+         and started tty3
+         and started tty4
+         and started tty5
+         and started tty6
           and (graphics-device-added fb0 PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY=1
                or drm-device-added card0 PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY=1
                or stopped udevtrigger))

At least the first reboot after this change was (a) very quick (b)
launched gdm/X on tty7. I will report back on how things go from here

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Plymouth text-mode splash causes X to crash on first run due to shared tty7
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