systemd fails to boot most of the time

[Tom H]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 27.02.2017, 18:57 -0500 schrieb Tom H:
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Fr, 2017-02-24 at 13:28 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>>>>> My second thought is to rebuild your current initramfs:
>>>>>> cd /boot
>>>>>> update-initramfs -ut -k $(name -r)
>>>>> But boots work, intermittently. As initramfs is RO, it can't be
>>>>> an
>>>>> error in that, can it?
>>>> The intermittnent success/failure is weird (and Ralph might be
>>>> correct in wonderting whather it's hardware-related) but I was
>>>> thinking that the initramfs might have an incorrect fstab.
>>> there is no fstab in the initrd :)
>> I remember doing an lsinitramfs and seeing an fstab; perhaps not.
> well, there is a file node but it is completely empty ...

Thanks. I didn't have an Ubuntu or Debian system on which to check
when I sent my previous email.

So my suggestions were stupid. The OP never got back to us regarding
"x-systemd.device-timeout".