One of my systems stalls at start-up

[Anders Wegge Keller]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:51:28 +0200
Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I start one of my systems, sometimes it stalls, even using Esc to see
> what is going on, I cannot enter the text mode.If I issue a Ctrl+Alt+Del,
> it switches to text mode but it is so fast that I cannot read anything..
> 
> Any advice is appreciated (is systemd to be blamed?)

 Systemd is probably involved, but I rather suspect plymouth to be the real
culprit. If you have the ability to get to a console (CTRL+ALT+Fn), try
logging in as root there, and switch to runlevel 3 and back to runlevel 5.
That does the trick for me.

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//Wegge