[Samuel Thibault] > To circumvent the issue, just disable the console completely in > /etc/defaults/hurd-console That worked too. After disabling it, rebooting, upgrading everything via ssh (worked just fine) and rebooting, I was still able to log in via ssh. Enabling hurd-console and rebooting caused the system to hang during boot in rc2.d again. :( -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen