Bug#767885: systemd fails to start services from time to time

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Thu Dec 15 21:43:56 GMT 2016


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On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:45:56 +0100 Andreas Florath <andre at flonatel.org>
wrote:
> after upgrading to the latest version of systemd, from time to
> time either services are not started or the system startup hangs
> completely.
> 
> When the system startup hangs, the symptoms are very similar to
> the ones reported in #754218.
> 
> I investigated this problem with different services, like:
> * kbd.service
> * pcscd.service
> * networking.service
> 
> When the system starts and a service was not started, it is also
> not possible to start this manually:
> 
> $ systemctl start kbd.service
> 
> hangs forever (or until a timeout of five minutes).
> 
> The 'strace -f systemctl start xyz.service' output looks always very
> similar.  Find a trace attached.
> 
> The problem occurs on my desktop machine and also on one of my VMs
> (did not upgrade my other VMs yet...)
> 

Hi Andre, sorry for the late reply.

Is this problem still reproducible on an up-to-date sid system?


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