Bug#883089: udev: on alpha architecture, /dev/disk/by-XXX nodes not created

[Michael Biebl]

Am 29.11.2017 um 15:56 schrieb Bob Tracy:
> Package: udev
> Version: 235-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> With kernel version 4.13, udev worked correctly at least two releases ago.  The
> current release (and maybe the prior one) fails to detect/enumerate SCSI disk
> partitions (both real filesystems and swap partitions) except for "/" and "/usr"
> which are mounted immediately upon boot by the initial ramdisk.
> 
> "journalctl -xb" has multiple messages of the form
> 
> dev-sdaX.device: Job dev-sdaX.device/start timed out.
> Timed out waiting for device dev-sdaX.device.
> 
> When this problem appeared nearly three years ago, the issue was CONFIG_FHANDLE
> not being set in the kernel configuration: it is currently set, and has been for
> every kernel build since that time.

Please check all other kernel config options as well that are listed in
 /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.gz

> Possibly related issue: the USB subsystem failed to initialize as well.

That really sounds like it might be a kernel (config) issue but not a
systemd issue.

> In systemd's emergency mode, all the various filesystems and swap partitions
> can be mounted or enabled as appropriate.  After doing this and exiting the
> emergency shell with a cntl-d, the system comes up in a mostly usable state.
> Networking can be manually started, as can the USB subsystem.
> 
> The situation is *much* worse with the 4.14 kernel.  "cat /proc/scsi/scsi"
> in the resulting emergency shell shows only the libata-mapped IDE cdrom
> device, i.e., the real SCSI host adapter and attached disk aren't seen at
> all.
> 
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers unreleased
>   APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: alpha
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.13.0

Please test the kernel that is provided by Debian and report back if it
works with that one.




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