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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you please boot with dropping "quiet" and "splash",   by editing the
"linux" line in the GRUB boot menu. Where do you end up? Do you get a
"login:" prompt where you can login? If not, please do a screenshot
(with a camera) and attach that, there's hopefully some text which shows
where exactly it gets stuck. Where did you type the "systemctl start
sddm" command? is that a rescue shell, or did you log in as your user?

Either way, if you are able to run commands, please try to attach
/var/log/syslog to this bug, it should have some useful information.
Thanks!

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Summary changed:

- Boot hangs before graphic login, message "starting version 219"
+ Boot hangs before graphic login

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1457564

Title:
  Boot hangs before graphic login

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Please note: there are obviously several different causes for this
  error. Other reports on launchpad and elsewhere identified sddm,
  systemd, nvidia drivers and grub config. Since none of the solutions
  mentioned there helped in my case, I am deliberately leaving the
  information on the source package open.

  I have upgraded to Kubuntu Vivid 15.04 shortly after the final release
  and used that without issues until two days ago when I ran updates
  (apt log attached).

  Ran »sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f«, then reboot: no change.

  Changed the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT option in /etc/default/grub to
  include »nomodeset«: no change. Other variations of this line did not
  help, either.

  I do not have nvidia or nouveau driver packages installed.

  I am aware that 219 is the current systemd version, so I tried the
  upstart option in grub. Hangs, too (though with different error
  message).

  »systemctl start sddm« asks for password, the returns »authentication
  complete« (in all-caps); nothing else happens.

  Re-installing linux-generic or kubuntu-desktop had no effect.

  What can I do to at least identify the cause of this issue?

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