Comment 24 for bug 28439

I did the following which seems to fix things (so far)

(1) comment out the udevplug lines from /etc/init.d/udev
(2) Create /etc/init.d/udevplug with *just* the udevplug lines in "start)" and nothing in the other sections
(3) Symlink this as /etc/rcS.d/S99udevplug (so it's the last thing to start in runlevel 1)

That seems to fix it for me, so far anyway... but it's ugly and will need attention every time I dist-upgrade.