Bug#884371: Hangs on boot without messages
Hi Sven,
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 04:50:02PM +0100, Sven Bartscher wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.16.51-2
> Severity: important
>
> Due to the nature of this bug, this report was generated with reportbug running
> on 3.16.43-2+deb8u5, so the information gathered by reportbug may only be
> partially useful.
>
> After upgrading the kernel to 3.16.51-2 it doesn't boot anymore. All I can see
> is the messages emitted by GRUB “Loading Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 ...” and “Loading
> initial ramdisk ...”. Nothing seems to happen after that (I waited for about 5
> minutes). The kernel does not seem to print any messages, even when booting
> without the quiet parameter.
>
> Unfortunetely the machine in question is a production server and I'm not
> allowed to restart it at will. This may make debugging in the future quite hard
> and is the reason why I didn't include a photo of the frozen screen.
Just to confirm, the output is not logged to any console you are
capturing?
Is this the same issue as #883938
There are test-kernels available at https://bugs.debian.org/883938#170
which is pending to be scheudled via a jessie-updates upload.
Regards,
Salvatore
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