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

[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 don't really know how I can investigate further.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.15.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages systemd-sysv depends on:
ii  systemd  208-6

systemd-sysv recommends no packages.

systemd-sysv suggests no packages.

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