Bug#766092: systemd: Boot hangs indefinitely

[Marcelo Laia]

On 22/10/14 at 07:15pm, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 22.10.2014 um 19:08 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > If you even had more files in /tmp and maybe you have an HDD, it's very
> > well possible, that systemd-tmpfiles will need several minutes.
> > That's why I wanted to know, how long you let the systemd-tmpfiles job  run.
> 
> Case in point: A user at [1] reported, that he had about 2 million files
> in /tmp and it took several hours to clean that up:
> 
> >  * systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service hung like forever during boot
> >  * booting from a live system showed that 'ls ./tmp' hangs
> >  * 'ls -U ./tmp | wc -l' showed nearly 2 million files in tmp
> >  * 'find ./tmp -type l -delete' took several hours to delete the links
> 

I have tried:

# rm -rf *

and got "the list was to big" or something else.

My system only work after reboot.

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