Bug#800528: systemd: Systemd cannot boot. sysvinit works.

[ael]

Package: systemd
Version: 226-3
Severity: important

On two of my machines, I have been unable to boot with systemd for some
time. Using the sysvinit fallback (init=/lib/sysvinit/init) does
allow full boot.

On this machine systemd simply stops (I do not know if this is deadlock
or livelock) but the machine is unresponsive. The screen display is a
few 10s of lines after the nouveau driver is loaded and the display is
refreshed as a result. I do not suspect the nouveau driver which works 
with a sysvinit boot.

Even under sysvinit, upgrading also hits problems with the rsyslog
service, but I don't know whether this is related.

Sorry that I have so little useful information.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libapparmor1    2.9.2-3
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4.4-3+b1
ii  libblkid1       2.27-3
ii  libc6           2.19-22
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-11
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-11
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.3-2
ii  libkmod2        21-1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libmount1       2.27-3
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libseccomp2     2.2.3-2
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2+b1
ii  libsystemd0     226-3
ii  mount           2.27-3
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59.2
ii  udev            226-3
ii  util-linux      2.27-3

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.10.0-3
ii  libpam-systemd  226-3

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-container  <none>
pn  systemd-ui         <none>

-- no debconf information