I chose a Debian 10 droplet, installed some packages, added a firewall, and updated the packages on the system. Now when I reboot, I’ve waited 25 minutes, and it still is stuck in the boot process.

I booted from a recovery USB, and uninstalled the firewall in case that was interfering with configuration of the droplet during the boot process, but that didn’t help.

I tested out a Debian 9 droplet and didn’t run into this issue. A new and upgraded Debian 10 droplet took a while to boot the first and second time, but now takes about a minute to reboot. Note that SSH is unavailable until a message about the crng prints to the screen, even though all SSH keys should be generated by now.

I’d rather not restart from scratch on a Debian 10 image, because I’ve already configured this one quite a bit. Is there any way I can save this image?

Thanks