Bug#805553: systemd 228-1 fails to boot: hangs in Create Volatile Files and Directories

[Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider]

I will try re-upgrading later this afternoon and let it run for a longer
time, but the message was "$x sec / no limit".

Felipe, are you referring to /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/home.conf? I will try that
out as well.

With a normal mount I previously had cyclic dependency issues, as I want to
bind-mount a local directory into that. It seems that this is wholly
unsupported by systemd and I couldn't get it to work reliably, so now the
bind mount is in /etc/rc.local as an ugly workaround. I can try making
/home a normal mount again, but given that the issue seems to be a lack of
network access, I don't see how that would succeed. I'll try to be sure
though.

Cheers,
Lorenz

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Am 19.11.2015 um 14:29 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
> > Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> >
> > On 19 November 2015 at 09:59, Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider
> > <lorenz-dev at lgh-alumni.de> wrote:
> >> Package: systemd
> >> Version: 228-1
> >> Severity: critical
> >> Justification: breaks the whole system
> >>
> >> Dear Maintainer,
> >>
> >> after the upgrade to systemd 228-1, my system failed to boot. It got
> stuck in "Create Volatile Files and Directories...", which I cancelled
> after a good minute. I had to downgrade systemd and related packages (udev,
> etc) to be able to boot again.
> >>
>
> >> I set the severity to critical as this seems to render systems
> unbootable if /home is a network filesystem. I hope that's not too drastic.
> >
> > My guess is that the automount part is part of the problem here. If
> > so, we should lower severity.
>
> It would also be interesting to at least let systemd-tmpfiles run for 90
> secs.
> It might eventually time out and the boot continues.
>
>
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