Bug#944645: systemd: upgrade breaks dbus

[Martin-Éric Racine]

ke 13. marrask. 2019 klo 17.06 Martin-Éric Racine
(martin-eric.racine at iki.fi) kirjoitti:
>
> ke 13. marrask. 2019 klo 16.44 Michael Biebl (biebl at debian.org) kirjoitti:
> >
> > Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
> > Am 13.11.19 um 10:34 schrieb Martin-Éric Racine:
> > > Package: systemd
> > > Version: 243-5
> > > Severity: important
> > >
> > > systemd upgrade broke dbus, which in turn prevents normal operation of APT and upgrade of packages that depend upon dbus messages.
> > >
> > > ******************
> > > $ sudo dpkg --configure --pending
> > > Setting up udev (243-5) ...
> > > Failed to reload daemon: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
> > > Failed to retrieve unit state: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
> > > invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel
> >
> > Is this system upgraded from a fully booted system? chroot? rescue shell?
>
> Fully booted system.
>
> > From which systemd version did you upgrade? How long was the system running?
>
> 242-7 to 243-5
>
> The host had been booted a few minutes earlier to upgrade the packages
> to current Testing versions.
>
> > > Failed to reload daemon: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
> > > Failed to retrieve unit state: Yhteys aikakatkaistu
> > > Failed to restart udev.service: Yhteys aikakatkaistu
> >
> > What's the translation? Unfortunately I don't speak Finish :-)
>
> Sorry. :-)
>
> It says: connection timed out.
>
> > > See system logs and 'systemctl status udev.service' for details.
> > > invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "restart" failed.
> > > Failed to get properties: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
> >
> > My guess is that it is not dbus that is broken but that the running
> > systemd instance does not react to requests (anymore). Could be that it
> > crashed (a result of that is that it will freeze itself).
>
> It indeed crashed as soon as it was upgraded.
>
> > Can you provide a dmesg dump and the output of journalctl -alb.
>
> Attached.
>
> > Please mark the time when the upgrade happened.
>
> It happened about 10 minutes before I sent the bug report.
>
> /var/log/apt/term.log indicates Log started: 2019-11-13  10:24:05
>
> term.log attached
>
> > I suppose your problem should be fixed when you do a forced reboot.
>
> It wasn't fixed by rebooting. APT still fails to complete the upgrade
> for previously failed packages.
>
> Martin-Éric

PS: It seems that systemd-coredump correctly did its job. I have the
core dump files from this morning on hand, if needed.