Bug#843160: udev: systemd-udevd times out

[Sven Joachim]

On 2016-11-04 14:40 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> 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.

This was red herring, after installing and booting the 4.8.0-1-686-pae
kernel I observed exactly the same problem when upgrading systemd and
udev again.  I can also confirm that there is no problem on an amd64
system, as observed in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4575.

Cheers,
       Sven