Bug#852202: systemd 232-13 aborts during upgrade and subsequent boots

[Michael Biebl]

Control: found -1 232-8

Hi David

Am 22.01.2017 um 18:20 schrieb David Taylor:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>>
>> Am 22.01.2017 um 14:14 schrieb David Taylor:
>>> Currently running systemd_231-9, first experienced this problem when
>>> trying to upgrade to 232-8, 232-13 is still giving the same problem.
>>
>> Upgrading from -9 to -8? I guess you mistyped this.
>> What is the first version you encountered the problem? Which version was
>> still working fine? Were other changes made to the system?
> 
> No typo - the first failed upgrade was from 231-9 to 232-8.  Nothing
> else changed at that time (except other package upgrades, but they seem
> irrelevant, given that downgrading to 231-9 leaves a working system and
> upgrading to either 232-8 or 232-13 leaves it failing to boot.)

Ok, marking this accordingly as found in 232-8. Otherwise 232-13 won't
migrate to testing.

> I built the systemd_232-13 package locally from source, so I'm not sure
> how useful the core file would be to you.  I have reproduced the
> backtrace below.

If you built 232-13 from source, can you cherry-pick the upstream patch
and see if that fixes your issue? We might then cherry-pick that patch
in the official package as well.
I can prepare packages if you prefer that.


>> The above bug report suggests a problem with unicode partition labels.
>> Do you have such a partition?
> 
> I didn't think so, but double-checking in /dev/disk/by-partlabel shows I do
> have an NTFS partition with the label †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††:
> 
> # ls -l /dev/disk/by-partlabel/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 22 13:19
> ††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† -> ../../sdb3

Ah, ok. So this is a dual boot system, I assume.

Is /dev/sdb3 the partition holding the actual Windows 10 system? [1]
suggests that the partition layout is
System | MSR | Windows | Recovery

If you boot Windows, what's the partion label shown there? Is it the
default label created by the Windows installer?

The reason I'm asking is that I want to get a better idea which / how
many users are affected.



Regards,
Michael


[1]
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions
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