Dowgrading and pinning sysvinit, sysvinit-utils and initscripts to 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 *seems* to make booting more reliable, though I have seen the hang up happen a few times still (on the i386 machine).
For reference, I use the following pinning. Package: sysvinit* initscripts* Pin: version 2.88dsf-43 Pin-Priority: -999 -- Olivier Mehani <sht...@ssji.net> PGP fingerprint: 4435 CF6A 7C8D DD9B E2DE F5F9 F012 A6E2 98C6 6655 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org