SOLVED init randomly hangs during boot

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I have an amd64 which recently has been randomly hanging during boot.
it is running init 2.88 and always stops at
Setting Terminal Encoding to UTF8

I can force power it and sometimes it will boot, but it seems pretty hit and miss

Anyone have any pointers on how to troubleshoot this?

thanks

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Worked it out is was the juju firewire stack.
As soon as I unplugged my firewire cable boxes the boot continued.

Tim