Hi Sven, On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 04:50:02PM +0100, Sven Bartscher wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.16.51-2 > Severity: important > > Due to the nature of this bug, this report was generated with reportbug > running > on 3.16.43-2+deb8u5, so the information gathered by reportbug may only be > partially useful. > > After upgrading the kernel to 3.16.51-2 it doesn't boot anymore. All I can see > is the messages emitted by GRUB “Loading Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 ...” and > “Loading > initial ramdisk ...”. Nothing seems to happen after that (I waited for about 5 > minutes). The kernel does not seem to print any messages, even when booting > without the quiet parameter. > > Unfortunetely the machine in question is a production server and I'm not > allowed to restart it at will. This may make debugging in the future quite > hard > and is the reason why I didn't include a photo of the frozen screen.
Just to confirm, the output is not logged to any console you are capturing? Is this the same issue as #883938 There are test-kernels available at https://bugs.debian.org/883938#170 which is pending to be scheudled via a jessie-updates upload. Regards, Salvatore
