ok, these look good. Can you please check the output of gzip -cd /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-24-generic | cpio -t | grep readlink
it should be something like 150957 blocks bin/readlink If that's not there, then for some reason your initramfs is broken. Does it change anything if you do sudo update-initramfs -u ? What's the output of that? (That shouldn't have anything to do with the boot race hang, though) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385630 Title: systemd 215 hangs during boot Status in “systemd” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I just installed (for testing) the newest systemd from Vivid proposed repositories. Yes, that is only a proposed package. The version is 215-5ubuntu1. Also the new plymouth was needed to do this (version 0.9.0-0ubuntu8). After the installation I found that every now and then booting or rebooting fails. It fails in a system-fsck line. So, nowhere to go from that, no tty's, no nothing. After each failure the next booting is successful, however. My setup is extremely fast, I am able to get to the desktop in about 5 seconds from grub menu. The setup contains Intel Core i7 4790 processor and Samsung 850 Pro SSD. This may also be some sort of race situation. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1385630/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp