No idea why it only happens to me. Anyway, I have narrowed down the problem to one line in nftables.service:
DefaultDependencies=no Without this everything works fine. On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 January 2018 at 11:12, Paolo Rosquin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Package: nftables >> Version: 0.8.1-1 >> Severity: important >> Tags: upstream >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> When nftables is enabled at boot time, it will fail to load and stop the >> whole >> booting process with "A start job is running for...". If I am not mistaken, >> it >> started when I updated to kernel 4.14. >> >> A workaround is to comment out the following lines from >> /lib/systemd/system/nftables.service: >> >> #Wants=network-pre.target >> #Before=network-pre.target shutdown.target >> #Conflicts=shutdown.target >> #DefaultDependencies=no > > I have the same versions and I don't see this behavior. > Also, the same systemd .service configuration.

