Bug#729707: Acknowledgement (base: jessie hangs on boot with 'INFO: task init:PID blocked for more than 120 seconds')

2013-12-02 Thread Olivier Mehani
Dowgrading and pinning sysvinit, sysvinit-utils and initscripts to 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 *seems* to make booting more reliable, though I have seen the hang up happen a few times still (on the i386 machine). For reference, I use the following pinning. Package: sysvinit* initscripts* Pin: version

Bug#729707: Acknowledgement (base: jessie hangs on boot with 'INFO: task init:PID blocked for more than 120 seconds')

2013-11-20 Thread Olivier Mehani
I am seeing the same problem on a third (i686) Jessie machine (a Dell Mini 1011). As for the amd64 machines, I thought an upgrade from init-system-helpers_1.11 to 1.13 fixed the problem on one of the amd64 boxes, as it booted properly once, but none of the others did. I am a bit reluctant to