[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#717892: systemd 204: Boot rescue (single) mode hangs

[Jos van Wolput]

Package: systemd
Version: 204-2
Severity: normal

After upgrading systemd from v.44 to v.204, attempting to boot systemd in
rescue (single) mode results in boot hanging at
systemd-fsck:/dev/sda5: clean, 143925/13746176 files,8735537/54956341.
System blocks with no further output or disk activity.The system still
appears to be running and ctrl-alt-delete triggers a clean reboot.
/dev/sda5 and sda6 seem to block booting in rescue mode only, not in
multi-user mode.

My fstab file:
---
/dev/sda1 /      ext4    errors=remount-ro     0      1
/dev/sda5 /home  ext4    defaults      0       1
/dev/sda6 swap   swap    defaults      0       0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noexec,noatime,mode=0755  0      0
---

I found a work around to make systemd booting in rescue mode by adding
'defaults,comment=systemd.automount' to /dev/sda5 and removing the swap
disk from fstab.
To get the swap disk working I added /sbin/swapon /dev/sda6 to rc.local.

There was no such issue with version 44!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: Jessie/Sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux debian 3.10-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.1-1 (2013-07-16)