systemd 230-7~bpo8+2 (bug causes shutdown freeze)

[garnut992-debian at yahoo.com]

I am completely open to the possibility that you're reading the bug reports better than me. I'm not a developer, so I tried to understand it as best as possible. Whether it's in systemd or udev or both, yes the fix is not in stable/Stretch yet, it's in testing and unstable.

It says on the Debian Backports webpage (https://backports.debian.org/) that "backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called "testing")." So I'm confused, why can't this be updated from testing? Is it because Jessie is oldstable now?

Thanks.

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On Sat, 7/8/17, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: systemd 230-7~bpo8+2 (bug causes shutdown freeze)
 To: debian-backports at lists.debian.org, systemd at packages.debian.org
 Cc: garnut992-debian at yahoo.com
 Date: Saturday, July 8, 2017, 2:49 AM
 
 On Sat, 08 Jul 2017 at 07:20:40 +0000, garnut992-debian at yahoo.com
 wrote:
 > There is a serious bug is
 systemd 230-7~bpo8+2 in jessie-backports that causes the
 shutdown procedure to hang/freeze, if you have a encrypted
 disk. 
 
 If I'm reading
 the bug correctly, this is more specifically a bug in
 udev, when run under sysvinit (not systemd) as
 pid 1. So it is
 mitigated by not affecting
 Debian's default init implementation
 (although the fix would have to be applied to
 the systemd source
 package, because that
 also builds udev).
 
 > You
 get a message "stopping remaining crypto disks"
 and then the shutdown procedure hangs and the whole system
 freezes, leaving only a hard power off to shutdown one's
 system.
 > 
 > See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=791944
 > And: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792552
 > 
 > This was fixed in
 systemd 233-1.
 > 
 >
 See: http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/systemd/unstable_changelog
 
 By backports policy, this
 can't be fixed in jessie-backports other than
 by backporting from stretch. I don't see
 any reference to #791944 having
 been fixed
 in stretch?
 
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867335
 is a request
 for permission to update
 systemd in stretch with some other bug fixes
 taken from unstable. #791944 would have to go
 through the same process.
 
     S