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

[Karl Schmidt]

Finally SOLVED - the problem was traced back to the nvidia driver package I was using (in jessie 
340.65+3.16.0+1) - I removed it ( the need has been eliminated as nouveau can now support dual 
headed displays). ( I did have to create a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get it to work at all 
(shouldn't be the case)).

What is interesting, was the total lack of logging from the nvidia provided software - even 
disabling kdm did not prevent the start-up hang.

I'm also thinking that the distribution upgrade process should probably check a list of old problem 
causing cruft packages.

I was able to find the problem by creating a list of packages on this machine and a similar one with 
a fresh install - loading those into meld to show the differences.

# lspci |grep -i nvid
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2)



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