Bug#816276: systemd: shutdown fails if swap can't be deactivated

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Christian

Am 29.02.2016 um 12:43 schrieb Christian Pernegger:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-17+deb8u3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running jessie inside a low-memory (k)vm, 384M of RAM plus
> swap. This has been tuned so that as much as possible is swapped out
> during normal operation but there's no thrashing, i.e. the working set
> easily fits into RAM.
> 
> Shutting down this vm will fail more often than not because systemd
> tries to disable swap very early in the process, before the main
> daemon (logitechmediaserver) has shut down. The shutdown process will
> then hang until the vm is force-killed by libvirt after about 5 mins
> or so.

This looks like a duplicate of
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805133

I've pulled the fix into our jessie branch, so it is very likely part of
the next stable point release.
If you want to test the fix, the code is at
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/log/?h=jessie
specifically
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=jessie&id=c4793975137d5d522fee104b7dab94a79547effd


Michael


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