Wheezy fails to complete boot after last update
After the last upgrade (kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 and wget), I have a
Debian/Wheezy server that isn't starting. It gets to the network then
stops.
The system isn't hung - it will still output messages to the screen
when I plug and unplug USB devices, and I can use the SysRq key to do
the reisub bit and see the messages from the various commands.
When I boot to rescue mode, I get to the same point but it shows more
network messages that seem to show the eth0 link is up, but it doesn't
get beyond that.
I can boot from sysrescuecd and everything works. And I can run the
system in chroot and start the services I need for it do its job
temporarily (bind, samba, cups) but I can't ssh to it. This is a pain
because the server is remote (35 minutes away) so I can only work on
it in person. And in person I have to steal a keyboard and monitor
from another machine.
Anyway, within the chroot I can view the various system logs but they
don't show much. They show me (remotely) rebooting the server after
the kernel upgrade then nothing until I chroot into it from
sysrescuecd. Dmesg is similarly absent. The dmesg log is from the
previous time I rebooted.
The onscreen messages during a boot showed the system failing to load
the firmware for the Realtek NIC (8111E) but installing the realtek
firmware package didn't help - it just fixed the error message.
The system is an ASUS M5A88-M mainboard with an AMD Fx4100 processor.
It has a 3-disk mdadm RAID array setup as a RAID-1 /dev/md0 boot
partition and RAID-5 /dev/md1p1 as root and /dev/md1p2 as /home.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can track down and/or fix this problem?
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