My workaround : - purge udev (this will remove initramfs-tool as well) - install udev 0.93-1 from testing - reboot : you will still have the error (coming from the initrd image generated by initramfs-tools ran with udev 0.97) - re-install initramfs-tools : will regenerate your initrd with the correct version of udev It worked on my system, I guess several variant could be possible, I'm not sure if it is necessary to purge udev conf file, or to reboot but that's how I did to get my PC back this mo