Bug#883877: rsyslog: fails to configure, dpkg --configure exits with error

[Michael Biebl]

Am 19.12.2017 um 02:18 schrieb Martin-Éric Racine:
> 2017-12-19 2:02 GMT+02:00 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
>> Am 18.12.2017 um 20:07 schrieb Martin-Éric Racine:
>>> 2017-12-18 2:08 GMT+02:00 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just uploaded v236 today. Before we try to debug this further, it
>>>> would be great if you can give this version a try. Maybe your issue is
>>>> already fixed.
>>>> If not, we'll have to involve upstream at some point by filing an
>>>> upstream bug report. But let's first wait for your results with 236-1
>>>
>>> The issue is not fixed. Something fails at communicating with dbus,
>>> and it messes up everything else.
>>
>> Just to be sure, have you rebooted your system after upgrading to 236-1?
> 
> Yes I have, but this required issuing "exec reboot -f" to bypass init
> entirely, otherwise it fails due to the lack of dbus connection.

Sure, if PID 1 has crashed, it will freeze itself and no longer respond
to any (D-Bus) requests.

When exactly does systemd crash? Is it immediately during boot or after
you've been using the system for a while?
I assume it works at least for a while, otherwise no other services
would be started and you would not be able to log in.
When systemd crashes, you should get an entry in the kernel log (dmesg)
respectively the journal.

It would be great if you can follow the instructions at [1] to boot with
debug logging enabled and then provide a journal log which shows such a
crash.


Michael

[1] https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/
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