Comment 7 for bug 1723809

Real hardware running Bionic, MSI b350m prog motherboard with R3 1300x cpu. I must use a usb ethernet due to the onboard ethernet causing PCIe issues. I thought the extended freeze I was experiencing at boot up was caused by hardware driver issues I'm debugging, since I do not even get a log blurb if I hard reset, but I just happened to notice it is this bug by disabling quiet and splash.

The wait-online-service check *never* finishes for me when it is triggered. I've left the PC on in this state for over an hour and it never reached the desktop. I don't know what triggers it, but lately it seems I experience it nine times out of ten boots.

If I boot without the usb ethernet connected (PCIe ethernet drivers disabled) the boot starts immediately.