Bug#853940: systemd: RestrictAddressFamilies causes services to fail to start on powerpc

[Phil Armstrong]

On Feb 2 2017, Michael Biebl wrote:

>I guess it would be worthwile testing 232-1 from snapshot.d.o [1]

Downgrading systemd, udev, libudev1 & libsystemd0 to 232-1 doesn't help:

  [190930.425521] systemd[2789]: systemd-udevd.service: Failed at step 
ADDRESS_FAMILIES spawning /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd: File exists

Would a headless machine boot successfully without these services? It's 
possible I just didn't notice they were failing.

Looking at the logs, I start seeing errors about services failing to start 
on Jan 20, which is when an unattended upgrade updated me to systemd 232-10 
according to the logs in /var/log/apt. On Jan 16th I upgraded the kernel to 
4.9.0-1 & booted that kernel. Would the machine boot without udev et al? It 
might be the kernel upgrade that's the problem. I'll try and see if I can 
find a combination of kernel & systemd that works.

cheers, Phil