For the ones who experience a boot failure, how long did you wait before you did the hard reset?
I just updated my main workstation and rebooted with the new kernel, and it stopped after the IPV6 start and it just sat there for a very long pause, then it showed "A start job is running for Load Kernel Modules" and that waited the full 1 minute 30 seconds before it proceeded with the rest of the bootup. Then it finished and brought up my plasma desktop, and everything seems to be correct.
I have never seen this delay before, so something substantial has changed since the previous kernel.
So if you haven't tried it before, try letting the system sit for a couple of minutes to see if there is some delay in the boot.
Host: dibl-patience Kernel: 4.18.10-towo.2-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.13.5
Distro: siduction 18.3.0 Patience - kde - (201805132121)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1401 date: 05/21/2018
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7740X bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 8192 KiB
Speed: 2699 MHz min/max: 800/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2699 2: 1873 3: 1654
4: 2757 5: 3490 6: 3017 7: 2958 8: 2567
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] driver: nvidia v: 390.87
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.1 driver: nvidia
resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.1.8
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.18.10-towo.2-siduction-amd64
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V driver: e1000e
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br0 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 908.96 GiB (39.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 58.81 GiB used: 9.18 GiB (15.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /home size: 393.18 GiB used: 51.10 GiB (13.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
ID-3: swap-1 size: 5.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 238 Uptime: 8m Memory: 31.33 GiB used: 1.79 GiB (5.7%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.24
EDIT: systemd-analyze blame shows at the first line 1 minute 30.057 seconds for the systemd-modules-load service. All other services are 1.6 seconds or less.