Bug#649033: linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64: boot sometimes stuck with "waiting for /dev to be fully populated."

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:29:08AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> 
> Version: 3.1.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The boot sometimes freezes with the message:
> 
>   "waiting for /dev to be fully populated."
> 
> There was a bug report against udev (bug #606192), which is closed,
> suggesting a kernel bug if the timeout doesn't occur, which is the
> case here (with linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64 3.1.1-1).
[...]
 
Please start the kernel without 'quiet' (the GRUB 'rescue mode'
entries will do this) so the kernel logs more to the console, and
send us the resulting messages (a photograph with readable text
is fine).

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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