Hi Niki, Just in case you are still facing the issue.
I have just dist-upgraded from wheezy to jessie, and I had the same problem on 64-bit. Removed my empty /etc/hostname file and the next reboot was OK. To verify I recreated the empty file and the problem came back. Hope that it helps. Cheers from the French Alpes, Alejandro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org