On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 10:27:53 (+0100), Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Good morning everybody. > > I just did a dist-upgrade of my laptop to the latest debian stable, and > now systemd should govern the machine. > > But whenever I choose the new tool the boot hangs on the > binfmt.service, prevenmting the machine to become useful. The solution > I use is to power-cycle and restart using System V boot. > > I tried to mask the service both from a System V-started system and a > systemd-started system, but that does not resolve the problem.
Try adding binfmt_misc to /etc/modules and the problem might go away about 99% of the time. If you have more than one computer, you may be able to ssh into the stalled machine and investigate. > Another trouble is samba. The package was removed and apt is not able > to configure it anymore. I haven't used samba this century; sorry. Cheers, David.
