Package: systemd-cron Severity: important Hi,
When I boot my system with systemd installed, it "freezes" (seems to) after 7 seconds or so. This is, on my system, jsut after enumerated the USB devices. If I left and wait, it restart it normal boot sequence at 90 seconds or so. And everything went fine. If I "do something", it gets out of freeze quickier. I tried to plug / unplug an USB device (I started with the enumerated ones thinking one of them is the culprit). An other guy said he has the same message while he swiched from a hdd to a ssd. I'm on a ssd by this occured very recently. The system has worked flawlessly for several months. He said that the timeout is shorter if he creates some entropy pressing many keys on the keyboard. As the message is related to systemd, I've reinstalle sysvinit. And this fixed the problem. I've seen an upgrade of systemd on sid so I tried to reinstall systemd. I got the same problem. BUT: if I keep systemd but remove systemd-cron, I've not this problem. Here is the part of the boot log where the problem appears: [ 7.405270] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd [ 7.578858] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=2514 [ 7.579007] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 7.579746] hub 1-6:1.0: USB hub found [ 7.579939] hub 1-6:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 7.858529] usb 1-6.1: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd [ 7.957340] usb 1-6.1: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0745 [ 7.957489] usb 1-6.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber =0 [ 7.957661] usb 1-6.1: Product: Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v6.0 [ 7.957801] usb 1-6.1: Manufacturer: Microsoft [ 93.198778] systemd[1]: system-generators terminated by signal ALRM. [ 93.274495] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Audit Socket. [ 93.275318] systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch. [ 93.276091] systemd[1]: Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs. [ 93.276835] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket. The USB devices are a EATON UPS and my keyboard/mouse. I tried to unplug them before the boot and I get the same problem. If I unplug one of them while if "freeze" state, the boot process resumes. If I plug anything (usb disk, usb key), it resumes also. So for the moment, I've the system running with systemd, systemd-cron is uninstalled and I've cron/anacron instead. Regards Jean-Luc -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-rc5-i7-1.1 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)