Bug#755581: systemd: emergency mode infinite loop after systemd upgrade

[Brian Julin]

Michael Biebl wrote:
>Am 26.07.2014 20:10, schrieb Brian Julin:
>> 3) If you enable "quiet" and run the recovery mode, you will get login prompts
>> within a minute or two.  You will get two login prompts running simultaneously.
>> Once you have provided a password to one of the prompts, the other will start
>> stealing every other character you type.  To get out of this you can type a sleep
>> command to the first shell by hitting enter after every character, then after
>> you have successfully put that shell to sleep, you can provide the password again
>> and get a mostly usable shell.  50/50 chance the shell will have echo on, so you
>> may not be able to see what you are typing.
>
>If I use "emergency" on the kernel command line, I can boot into
>emergency mode without any issues, no matter if I have enabled quiet or not.

You may need to have a dependency failure for the boot target to see this behavior.

>Since you are able to reproduce this issue, are you open for further
>debugging?

Sure, what's needed?  To start:

root at charon:/home/bri# blkid
/dev/sda1: TYPE="swap" UUID="62d7daa5-5064-4b07-b06a-479722490aea" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="fb01de48-f1fc-480a-90fc-15d6f858ec0e" TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/sda3: UUID="aa676cc9-5f75-45f2-b039-c44283df8c4b" TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 

And here are some random junk from the logs that might serve as starting clues:

Jul 26 13:38:51 charon systemd-udevd[330]: specified group 'nvram' unknown
Jul 26 13:38:51 charon systemd-udevd[330]: specified user 'tss' unknown
Jul 26 13:38:51 charon systemd-udevd[330]: specified group 'tss' unknown
Jul 26 13:38:51 charon systemd-udevd[330]: specified group 'kvm' unknown
Jul 26 13:38:51 charon systemd-udevd[330]: specified group 'rdma' unknown
Jul 26 13:38:49 charon systemd-udevd[330]: invalid ENV attribute, 'DEVTYPE' can 
not be set /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules:27
Jul 26 13:38:49 charon systemd-udevd[330]: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules:27'
ul 26 13:19:09 localhost systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-62d7daa5\x2d5064\x2d4b07\x2db06a\x2d479722490aea.device/start timed out.
/var/log/syslog:Jul 26 13:19:09 localhost systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /dev/disk/by-uuid/62d7daa5-5064-4b07-b06a-479722490aea.
Jul 26 13:38:52 charon systemd-udevd[468]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/socket:@/org/kernel/udev/monitor' 'socket:@/org/kernel/udev/monitor': No such file or directory
Jul 26 13:38:59 charon systemd-udevd[2031]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/vol_id' 'vol_id --export /dev/sda3': No such file or directory
Jul 26 13:39:12 charon systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service, ignoring: Unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service failed to load: No such file or directory.


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