Bug#790556: systemctl crashes, systemd setup fails

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 important

(I'm downgrading to non-RC, since sparc is not a release architecture)

Am 30.06.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Meelis Roos:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 221-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> I had trouble with udev 220-7 hanging on sparc boot with corrupted
> messages on serial console. Because it was hard to report in
> understandable way, I booted init=/bin/bash and tried to upgrade all
> packages to try the lastest before reporting. However, now systemd setup
> crashes and breaks the system even more:

Did you have a version which worked correctly on sparc?


> Setting up systemd (221-1) ...
> Installing new version of config file
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.login1.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.systemd1.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/pam.d/systemd-user ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/bootchart.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/journald.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/logind.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/resolved.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/system.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/user.conf ...
> *** Error in `systemctl': free(): invalid pointer: 0xf76fc89c ***
> Aborted
> *** buffer overflow detected ***: systemd-machine-id-setup terminated
> Aborted
> dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 134
> Processing triggers for dbus (1.8.18-1) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   systemd

Can you boot into sysvinit [1] and complete the installation there?

> dmesg has nothing of interest, kernel is 4.0.0-2-sparc64 from Debian
> package.


[1] Either install sysvinit-core (which will remove systemd-sysv) or
choose the sysvinit option in grub.

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