Bug#777735: systemd: Disk corruption on reboot initiated through systemd

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Thu Feb 12 06:14:05 GMT 2015


control: tags -1 = confirmed
control: retitle -1 data corruption on reboot when using watchdog/qemu

Am 12.02.2015 um 06:57 schrieb Peter Colberg:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 05:44:59AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Fwiw, I pulled the debian_wheezy_amd64_desktop.qcow2 qemu-kvm image from
>> [1], started it with "qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -hda
>> debian_wheezy_amd64_standard.qcow2".
>> Then did a dist-upgrade to jessie, which replaced sysvinit with
>> systemd-sysv as default.
>> Did a couple of reboots and couldn't find any corruption in any of the
>> rsyslog managed log files.
> 
> Good idea! I did the same and then started the VM with
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -curses -enable-kvm -device i6300esb -watchdog-action reset -hda debian_wheezy_amd64_standard.qcow2
> 
> A reboot triggers corruption in /var/log/syslog with a hole of nils.
> 

Thanks, I was able to reproduce the issue this way (marking the bug
accordingly).
It's likely that the watchog is resetting systemd/rsyslog before it has
a chance to stop properly.

Let's see, where we can go from here.


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