Bug#781151: boot often stalls with two "A start job is running" messages: binfmt and schroot sessions

[Michael Biebl]

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Dear Thibaud,

Am 25.03.2015 um 10:39 schrieb Thibaut Paumard:
> About each time I reboot my computer, boot stalls with two start jobs unable to
> complete:
> 
> A start job is running for Enable support for additional binary formats ([...]
> / no limit)
> 
> A start job is running for LSB: Recover schroot sessions ([...] / no limit)
> 
> When that happens, I have to forcibly halt the computer (an Apple MacBook Pro)
> by holding the power button. Next boot usually goes fine.
> 
> This has been happening since at least end of December 2014. It looks random,
> with a fairly high probability (~50%).

Can you boot with the following added to your kernel command line (man
kerne-command-line) systemd.debug-shell.

This will start a debug shell on tty9.

If your system hang during boot, please switch to tty9, then save the
output of
ps aux
systemctl list-jobs
systemd-cgls

Thanks,
Michael



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