Bug#802184: Installation-reports

[Michael Biebl]

Am 18.10.2015 um 10:18 schrieb 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.
> 


While we were aware of the /etc/mtab issue (see [1]), we didn't know it
would affect d-i, otherwise we would have filed a bug report against d-i
in advance / notified you.

Thanks for fixing it so promptly,

Michael

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1495
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