Bug#786942: upgrade-reports: wheezy -> jessie boot lock up "A start job is running for udev wait for Complete Device Initialization"

[Nicolas Krzywinski]

Hello,

a few days ago I tried to upgrade my wheezy homeserver to jessie, following this guideline here: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.de.html

At boot of this newly-born jessie, my system stopped at this message as well.
But it never proceeded. (ok, "never" is no technical valid expression here - I waited over 15 minutes and nothing happened)

I did some resets and the boot process looked a little different each time, but it always got stuck "forever" (see above) with no disk action.

One problem is that I can not really read what is printed out there, as everything gets overwritten on the last line.

Next problem is that when being stuck at the "A start job is running for udev wait for Complete Device Initialization" message, the system reacts to no keypress, except ctrl+alt+del

I noticed that just before the system got stuck there is a message for launching a maintenance shell or alternatively pressing Ctrl+D to proceed. But I can not read fast enough what happened there, before those lines get overwritten. And afterwards Ctrl+D is not working. I also tried to type in the root password blindly, followed by enter, assuming that this messages is invisible in background - but nothing happened.

When typing fast enough immediately when this message occurs (without trying to read the message and the preceeding lines) I am able to login to the maintenance shell!


Ok, sorry for this long story, but I wanted to describe what happens there - because in my eyes this boot process is completely broken.


Now, finally the question:

Besides the
# systemctl mask systemd-udev-settle
command, is there anything else I can do, when being in the maintenance shell to investigate/solve the problem?


(I did not tried the above command until now, as I booted ol'wheezy from online backup copies of my system partitions and I want to gather as much additional informations as possible before doing the next try)


Thanks for any help.
Nicolas


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