On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 at 14:28:41 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I can reproduce something very like this in a smaller stretch VM
After upgrading to current stretch package versions and rebooting (to rule out #801354), I can still reproduce the "Connection timed out" messages (apparently reliably) by installing task-xfce-desktop. I haven't found a smaller package set that does the same (at least not reliably). If this is anything like #801354 then it might be a race condition, so perhaps it's just less likely with smaller sets. However, after waiting for the install to finish, systemctl still works (I can restart avahi-daemon, for instance), rebooting also works (without delay), and lightdm starts successfully after the reboot... so the worst of the symptoms do seem to be fixed, perhaps by fixing #801354. I don't think this is necessarily release-critical. S