Bug#917168: systemd: fail to start kde after 240-1 upgrade

[Baptiste BEAUPLAT]

Package: systemd
Version: 240-1
Severity: important

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Dear Maintainer,

After updating my system, I'm was not able to start my kde desktop (plasma):

The problem is kdeinit5, called itself by startkde, running into an infinite
loop of call to the close() syscall (verified with strace).

Downgrading the following package to 239-15 fixed my problem:

- - - udev:amd64 (240-1, 239-15)
- - - libudev1:amd64 (240-1, 239-15)
- - - libsystemd0:amd64 (240-1, 239-15)
- - - libnss-mymachines:amd64 (240-1, 239-15)
- - - libpam-systemd:amd64 (240-1, 239-15)
- - - systemd:amd64 (240-1, 239-15)
- - - libnss-systemd:amd64 (240-1, 239-15)
- - - systemd-container:amd64 (240-1, 239-15)

Note that at least one other person has reported the bug:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2018/12/msg00004.html

- -- Package-specific info:

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser          3.118
ii  libacl1          2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libapparmor1     2.13.1-3+b1
ii  libaudit1        1:2.8.4-2
ii  libblkid1        2.33-0.2
ii  libc6            2.28-3
ii  libcap2          1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup12  2:2.0.6-1
ii  libgcrypt20      1.8.4-4
ii  libgnutls30      3.6.5-2
ii  libgpg-error0    1.33-3
ii  libidn11         1.33-2.2
ii  libip4tc0        1.8.2-2+b1
ii  libkmod2         25-2
ii  liblz4-1         1.8.2-1
ii  liblzma5         5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmount1        2.33-0.2
ii  libpam0g         1.1.8-3.8
ii  libseccomp2      2.3.3-3
ii  libselinux1      2.8-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0      239-15
ii  mount            2.33-0.2
ii  util-linux       2.33-0.2

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.12.12-1
ii  libpam-systemd  239-15

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-23
ii  systemd-container  239-15

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.132
ii  udev             239-15

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/journald.conf changed [not included]
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]

- -- no debconf information

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