Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, 2018-11-23 at 22:37 +0100, TS wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.18.20-1 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > Dear Maintainers, > > linux-image-4.18.0-3-amd64 does not boot on this computer. > After grub shortly cursor is blinking upper left (when usually the initrd is > deflating and systemd starts). > After that nothing happens. > HDD LED does not signalling activity. > Display stays dark, no messages appear with > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet consoleblank=0 systemd.show_status=1" > set. > > initrd has been rebuild manually before rebooting with > dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-... > > as i get used to. > > Booting linux-image-4.18.0-2-amd64 instead solves the issue. > > Since the issue happens very early in boot process debugging is quit difficult. > Assistance with further debugging is required if you need additional informations. You can use a serial console or netconsole to send the kernel log to another computer: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/serial-console.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth
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