Bug#885201: systemd-cryptsetup-generator: incorrectly reports “Out of memory”

[Ben Finney]

Package: systemd
Version: 236-1
Severity: important

The host fails to start up because encrypted volumes depend on
cryptsetup. When ‘systemd-cryptsetup-generator’ runs during boot, the
following error appears:

    systemd-cryptsetup-generator[320]: Out of memory

and all dependencies that require an encrypted volume also fail. This
leaves the system at the emergency login prompt.

This bug only started occurring after this host upgraded ‘systemd’
from version “235-3” to version “236-1”.


At the emergency shell, I can manually run the command, and then mount
the volume without any problem. So the “Out of memory” error is
evidently incorrect.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.116
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libapparmor1    2.11.1-4
ii  libaudit1       1:2.8.2-1
ii  libblkid1       2.30.2-0.1
ii  libc6           2.25-3
ii  libcap2         1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.7.5-1
ii  libgcrypt20     1.8.1-4
ii  libgpg-error0   1.27-5
ii  libidn11        1.33-2.1
ii  libip4tc0       1.6.1-2+b1
ii  libkmod2        24-1
ii  liblz4-1        0.0~r131-2+b1
ii  liblzma5        5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmount1       2.30.2-0.1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.6
ii  libseccomp2     2.3.1-2.1
ii  libselinux1     2.7-2
ii  libsystemd0     236-1
ii  mount           2.30.2-0.1
ii  procps          2:3.3.12-3
ii  util-linux      2.30.2-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.12.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd  236-1

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-18
pn  systemd-container  <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130
ii  udev             236-1

-- no debconf information

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_o__)                                                                  |
Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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