Bug#843160: udev: systemd-udevd times out

[Sven Joachim]

On 2016-11-04 13:23 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Package: udev
> Version: 232-1
> Severity: important
>
> Upon upgrading from 231-10, systemd-udevd.service times out.  Systemd
> tries to restart it in an endless loop, but to no avail.
> [...]
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

It looks like this combination is what does not work.  When I tried to
reboot with the Debian 4.8.0-1-amd64 kernel, systemd-journald failed to
start, causing the boot to hang (I didn't write down the exact error
message, sorry).  Since I did not have any 32-bit kernel at hand, this
was rather embarrassing.  I finally resorted to booting with
init=/bin/bash and downgrading all systemd packages to 231-10.

I don't have time to debug this today, maybe I can do some tests
tomorrow if nobody beats me to it.

Sven