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

[Phil Armstrong]

On 02/02/17 16:04, Phil Armstrong wrote:

> 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.

Turns out that no, it won’t boot without these services running. At 
least it lets me drop to an emergency shell so that I can edit the 
service files.

So this really looks like the 32-bit seccomp bug, but the fix for that 
is supposed to have been back-ported to the Debian systemd release.

Phil