i've decided to mark my own bug report invalid... i never did find out
what was going on, but it only affected me and it hasn't happened in a
long time.
** Changed in: busybox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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busybox unresponsive
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496872
You received this
I have since gotten around this problem. It turns out my initramfs was
broken by having been built while libraries were specified in
ld.so.preload (those needed for dante-client to run in the background).
I'm sure my configuration caused this problem, but I am not sure exactly
how.
Still, there mu