Bug#843251: Job for systemd-udevd.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.

[Elimar Riesebieter]

control: severity -1 important

* 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org> [2016-11-05 22:05 +0800]:

> Package: udev
> Version: 232-1
> 
> Setting up udev (232-1) ...
> addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
> Job for systemd-udevd.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
> See "systemctl status systemd-udevd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "restart" failed.
> ● systemd-udevd.service - udev Kernel Device Manager
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: activating (start) since Sat 2016-11-05 22:00:35 CST; 76ms ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-udevd.service(8)
>            man:udev(7)
>  Main PID: 8638 (systemd-udevd)
>     Tasks: 1
>    CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-udevd.service
>            └─8638 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
> 
> 11月 05 22:00:35 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
> dpkg: error processing package udev (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  udev
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Setting up udev (232-1) ...
> addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
> 
> # journalctl -xe
> 
> 11月 05 22:02:09 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
> 11月 05 22:02:09 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.
> 11月 05 22:02:09 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Stopped udev Kernel Device Manager.
> -- Subject: Unit systemd-udevd.service has finished shutting down
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> -- 
> -- Unit systemd-udevd.service has finished shutting down.
> 11月 05 22:02:09 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
> -- Subject: Unit systemd-udevd.service has begun start-up
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> -- 
> -- Unit systemd-udevd.service has begun starting up.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Failed to start udev Kernel Device Manager.
> -- Subject: Unit systemd-udevd.service has failed
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> -- 
> -- Unit systemd-udevd.service has failed.
> -- 
> -- The result is failed.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Unit entered failed state.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Stopped udev Kernel Device Manager.
> -- Subject: Unit systemd-udevd.service has finished shutting down
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> -- 
> -- Unit systemd-udevd.service has finished shutting down.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
> -- Subject: Unit systemd-udevd.service has begun start-up
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> -- 
> -- Unit systemd-udevd.service has begun starting up.
> # systemctl status systemd-udevd.service
> ● systemd-udevd.service - udev Kernel Device Manager
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: activating (start) since Sat 2016-11-05 22:03:39 CST; 1min 26s ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-udevd.service(8)
>            man:udev(7)
>  Main PID: 8728 (systemd-udevd)
>     Tasks: 1
>    CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-udevd.service
>            └─8728 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
> 
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Failed to start udev Kernel Device Manager.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Unit entered failed state.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Stopped udev Kernel Device Manager.
> 11月 05 22:03:39 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...

I can confirm this behaviour. Be care to reboot:
If booting with systemd you will be pulled in maintenance mode.

I found this only on i386 arch with a separated /var and /usr
partition. Downgrading to testing's version (231-9) helped to reboot
systemd again. So hereby I set severity to at least important.
Should be grave IMHO.

amd64 machines with separated /var and /usr run fine, though.

Elimar
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