Bug#926603: Debian fails to start after installation into Virtualbox

[Andy Ruddock]

Package: systemd
Severity: critical

I'm running Windows 10 (Home edition - up to date) on the desktop, with
Virtualbox (v6.0.4).
I've used both the netinst CD & the testing DVD (downloaded today -
07/Apr/2019) to install Buster.
After installation the system fails to start with many errors.
The first is :

systemd[1]: user.slice: Failed to set inovcation ID for unit: File
exists
[FAILED]: Failed to start User and Session Slice.

other services then fail to start :

[FAILED] Failed to start Slices.
[FAILED] Failed to listen on udev Kernel Socket.
[FAILED] Failed to start Remote File Systems.
[FAILED] Failed to listen on Syslog Socket.

and many more, followed by

systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/2cb....

finally

[FAILED] Failed to start Network.

At which point there is no more, the system just halts.

Starting with "quiet" removed from linux invocation in grub, I see

systemd[1]: systemd 241 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX
+IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS
+ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2
default-hierarchy=hybrid)
systemd[1]: Detected virtualization oracle.
systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64.

Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux buser/sid!

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Andy Ruddock
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