Bug#1117589: Regression: System Hangs at Boot Until Key Press

[Chris Nospam]

Just a very wild guess: I just remembered that because of the 4K display, I once ago have changed the console font from the standard FIXED 8x16 to larger Terminus 12x24 using dpkg-reconfigure console-setup. This font is then also used during boot. Maybe the non standard font (or it's size) is included in the potentially buggy systemd's terminal size calculation and also is a trigger for the bug?

$ dkpg-reconfigure console-setup

$ cat /etc/default/console-setup
# CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON

# Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.

ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"

CHARMAP="UTF-8"

CODESET="Lat15"
#FONTFACE="Fixed"
#FONTSIZE="8x16"
FONTFACE="Terminus"
FONTSIZE="12x24"

VIDEOMODE=

# The following is an example how to use a braille font
# FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'