Bug#755672: systemd-sysv: emergency mode fails to start, looping with ipmi_si: unable to find any system interface(s)

[Michael Biebl]

Am 22.07.2014 11:11, schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Package: systemd-sysv
> Version: 208-6
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First boot with systemd-sysv failed.  The base reason is that I had
> a bogus line in fstab which sysvinit was fine with, but systemd is
> not (FTR, /var/tmp/d-i/debian.iso /mnt/dvd-1 auto defaults 0 0, but
> debian.iso doesn't exist any more).  The problem is however that the
> emergency mode, supposed to let me fix it, didn't start.
> 
> I haven't found any log in /var/log or journalctl, so I'm attaching a
> screenshot. One can see the /mnt/dvd-1 mount failure, which triggers
> emergency mode, but then the system only keeps printing
> 
> IPMI System Interface driver.
> ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
> 
> at nauseam, I have left it try for 5 minutes before rebooting. I tried
> passing debug on the kernel command line, but didn't get any better
> output.
> 
> Fortunately, specifying emergency at kernel command line did get me a
> working emergency mode in which I could fix my fstab, and the system
> could then boot (though not any faster than sysvinit...)
> 
> This is however very worrying that emergency mode can't start.
> 
> After reboot, journalctl | grep -i ipmi gives me
> 
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type systemd-modules-load[208]: Inserted module 'ipmi_devintf'
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type kernel: ipmi message handler version 39.2
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type kernel: ipmi device interface
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type systemd-modules-load[208]: Inserted module 'ipmi_poweroff'
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type kernel: Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI Powerdown via sys_reboot.
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type kernel: IPMI System Interface driver.
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type kernel: ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type systemd-modules-load[208]: Failed to insert 'ipmi_si': No such device
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type systemd-modules-load[208]: Inserted module 'ipmi_watchdog'
> juil. 22 10:20:49 type kernel: IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized


I assume those ipmi_ modules are in /etc/modules or a file in
/etc/modules-load.d/?

Aside from the kernel messages (which might be a red herring), do you
get the "Welcome to emergency mode..." message but no actual login
prompt? And after a few minutes, you get another "Welcome to emergency
mode ..." message without a login prompt, and so on?

If so, this looks like a duplicate of #755581 to me

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