Bug#778581: systemd install breaks chroot jail and compromises guest system

[Michael Biebl]

Am 17.02.2015 um 01:13 schrieb Wolfgang Rosner:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to configure nfsroot installation for diskless clients.
> - <server$> debootstrap .... /path/to/client-root
> - <server$> chroot /path/to/client-root /bin/bash
> - CHR#>  apt-get install <lots of stuff w/o problems>
> - CHR#>  apt-get install systemd
> 
> The last command leads to some error message (I can't remember)
> Then, after googling, I run something like dpkg -a (still in the chrooted shell)
> This made my server completely frozen.
> 
> After forceful reboot, It seems that I got parts of systemd installed on the server, too, not only on the chrooted client-root.


> 
> root at cruncher:/cluster/tftp/active/pxelinux.cfg# dpkg --list | grep systemd
> ii  libpam-systemd:amd64                  215-8                                  amd64        system and service manager - PAM module
> ii  libsystemd-login0:amd64               44-11+deb7u4                           amd64        systemd login utility library
> ii  libsystemd0:amd64                     215-8                                  amd64        systemd utility library
> ii  systemd                               215-8                                  amd64        system and service manager
> ii  systemd-shim                          9-1                                    amd64        shim for systemd
> 
> root at cruncher:/cluster/tftp/active/pxelinux.cfg# grep systemd /var/log/apt/history.log
> 
> ..... is EMPTY ....
> 
> So I think systemd got installed accidentially by breaking the chroot.

What you describe sounds highly unlikely. Merely installing systemd in a
chroot will not "break the chroot".

To me it looks like you accidentally installed systemd on the host
system yourself, or it was already installed.



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