[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#854354: Bug#854354: Bug#854354: sssd prevents system booting up

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 06.02.2017 15:28, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 02:50:27PM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> On 06.02.2017 12:49, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>>> Package: sssd
>>> Version: 1.50.0-2
>>> Severity: grave
>>>
>>> I updated my stretch system this morning which led to it failing to
>>> reach a login prompt; the system would start up and then avahi-daemon,
>>> ModemManager and NetworkManager would all fail to start, then
>>> systemd-logind would fail. This repeated in a continuous loop. Initially
>>> suspecting ModemManager or NetworkManager I tried removing them (the
>>> machine has wired ethernet, configured via /etc/network/interfaces), but
>>> this did not help.
>>>
>>> Looking at the errors provided by systemd in my logs led me to:
>>>
>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/02/msg00025.html
>>>
>>> which provided the clue I needed to try downgrading ssd from 1.15.0-2
>>> (which was pulled in by the update this morning) to 1.14.2-1 (the
>>> previously installed version). The machine subquently rebooted cleanly.
>>>
>>> A coworker's machine was similiarly affected, and the same solution
>>> worked there.
>>
>> This is now fixed in 1.15.0-3 which had to wait for -2 to migrate first.
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience, the easiest way to restore sanity while you
>> wait for -3 is to remove /etc/systemd/system/sssd.service.wants.
> 
> Demoting #854048 to "so that sssd can automigrate" seems to me to be
> abuse of the bug severity; this bug caused serious problems logging in
> for users of sssd and the package should not have migrated to testing.
> The existence of a work around is not a sufficient reason to do so;
> systems that ended up with the upgraded package would end up not coming
> up to a login prompt with an unclear root cause.

Yes, well it was discussed with release folks how to handle this, and
it's not everyone that is affected (I'm not, which is why I didn't know
about it before last Friday when Tomas tried sid).

bumped severity again, now for the paperwork..

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t