[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#683882: base: Extremely long boot up time

[Joshua Brickel]

Package: base
Severity: normal

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

dmesg log shows where the hang-up for 4m minutes is:
[   11.563949] FS-Cache: Loaded
[   11.574895] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[   11.582477] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
[  191.707831] fuse init (API version 7.17)
[  193.253282] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: enabling interface
[  193.253966] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[  193.981714] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
Note between two adjacent steps about 180 seconds go by.

A snippet of syslog states:
Aug  4 22:56:38 JoshuAmy kernel: [   11.555430] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
Aug  4 22:56:38 JoshuAmy kernel: [   11.555434] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
Aug  4 22:56:38 JoshuAmy kernel: [   11.555436] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
Aug  4 22:56:38 JoshuAmy kernel: [   11.555438] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
Aug  4 22:56:38 JoshuAmy kernel: [   11.563949] FS-Cache: Loaded
Aug  4 22:56:38 JoshuAmy kernel: [   11.574895] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
Aug  4 22:56:38 JoshuAmy kernel: [   11.582477] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
Aug  4 22:56:38 JoshuAmy kernel: [  191.707831] fuse init (API version 7.17)

Clearly something is timing out, but I haven't yet figured out what it is.