[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#742322: backtrace for systemd crash

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 27 08:47:14 GMT 2014


Hi,

On 27.03.2014 02:29, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the back trace!

I'm glad I could help.

> This helped me to reproduce the sequence of events which need to happen
> to trigger the abort. So this is good news (well sort of).

This is great news, at least for me, as I now can reboot this machine.

> Andreas, you mentioned:
>> 'Freezing execution' sounds as bad as crashing.
>
> Actually it isn't. Would systemd symply crash, your kernel would freeze.
> With systemd catching the SIGABRT you can at least still stop your
> service (even if you need to do that via kill), you can sync and unmount
> your fs besides / and do a half-way decent reboot.

You're right, I can still make a half-way decent reboot, and that's what 
I'm going to do now.

Best regards,
Andreas




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