[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#659933: sysvinit: system locks up during boot

[Brian Paterni]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-22
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

My desktop is no longer usable unless I boot from a live cd. After grub, boot
proceeds for a bit, stalls, and then spits out quite a bit of text. I'm assuming
this is some sort of serious kernel panic since not even magic-sysrq function.
The last page of output is composed of 8 columns filled with numbers followed by
a column of process names. The process names on the last page alternate between
'modprobe' and 'sh'.

I'm unsure which package is truly responsible for this bug since it happens so
fast during boot time. Though this is a problem that was introduced relatively
recently; first noticed this morning. I don't believe the kernel itself is
reponsible either since the bug is present in both 3.2 and 3.1 (only two kernels
on my system ATM)

Sorry for the lack of information I provided. Let me know if there's anything
further I can do to resolve this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  debianutils     4.2.1
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-22
ii  libc6           2.13-26
ii  libselinux1     2.1.0-4.1
ii  libsepol1       2.1.0-1.2
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-22
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-22

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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