[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#731477: sysvinit: Hangs when booted into "-b" (emergency) mode

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:18:58PM -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote:
> I regularly boot into "-b" (emergency) at least once a week, in order to
> perform backups of my root partition while it is in a read-only state.
> 
> I have never experienced any problems with using "-b" (emergency) mode
> before encountering this problem.
> 
> This problem has so far only happened when booting this linux kernel,
> 
>     linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64

This is an odd problem, and it's going to be tricky to track down
without being able to easily reproduce it.  If you notice the
keyboard lights flickering, this looks like it's possibly an
input layer issue.  If only this kernel exhibits the problem then
sysvinit is unlikely to be involved directly.  I would suggest
looking at a newer kernel e.g. 3.12 and the options the kernel
was compiled with.

If you try either 3.11.8-1 (testing) or 3.11.10-1 (unstable), do
these also show the problem?

I would suggest if it's dependent upon the kernel you are running,
that this should be reassigned to the "linux" kernel source
package.


Regards,
Roger

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