On 2016-11-04 14:40 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-11-04 13:23 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Package: udev >> Version: 232-1 >> Severity: important >> >> Upon upgrading from 231-10, systemd-udevd.service times out. Systemd >> tries to restart it in an endless loop, but to no avail. >> [...] >> Architecture: i386 (x86_64) > > It looks like this combination is what does not work. When I tried to > reboot with the Debian 4.8.0-1-amd64 kernel, systemd-journald failed to > start, causing the boot to hang (I didn't write down the exact error > message, sorry). Since I did not have any 32-bit kernel at hand, this > was rather embarrassing. I finally resorted to booting with > init=/bin/bash and downgrading all systemd packages to 231-10.
This was red herring, after installing and booting the 4.8.0-1-686-pae kernel I observed exactly the same problem when upgrading systemd and udev again. I can also confirm that there is no problem on an amd64 system, as observed in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4575. Cheers, Sven
