Bug#802184: Installation-reports

[Cyril Brulebois]

Control: retitle -1 installation-reports: systemd refuses to boot (/etc/mtab vs. /proc/self/mounts)
Control: reassign -1 finish-install
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tag -1 - d-i
Control: affects -1 installation-reports

Hi Henry,

Henry Williams <htwilli at gmail.com> (2015-10-18):
> Comments/Problems:
> 
> On the first run systemd freezes execution. Exact wording:
> [5.942102] systemd[1]: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not
> pointing to /proc/self/mounts. This is not supported anymore.
> Please replace /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.
> 
> [5.943702] systemd[1]: Freezing execution.

Thanks for reporting! This has been discussed in another bug report[1] a
few hours ago, and a fix has been pushed to git; I'm uploading a fixed
package in a moment.

 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/10/msg00120.html

Adding systemd maintainers in copy for reference; it would be nice to
know when systemd becomes stricter before it actually happens.

Mraw,
KiBi.
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