Bug#976699: 247 breaks some by-label mounts

[Sven Joachim]

Control: severity -1 important

On 2020-12-07 06:04 +0000, Jamie Heilman wrote:

> Package: udev
> Version: 247.1-3
>
> I have a fairly straightforward virtualized kvm guest or two here
> using ext4 volumes on a paritioned virtio block device.  Just a root
> volume, swap partition, tmpfs for /tmp and a volume for /var
> all configured in /etc/fstab.  After upgrading to 247 the /var volume
> fails to mount if fstab uses LABEL=/var.

Same here.  I had to wait for systemd to spawn sulogin, "mount -a" there
got my filesystems mounted.

> It will work if I switch to UUID=..., change the label name to
> something that doesn't require escaping, or if I downgrade everything
> to 246.
>
> upstream bug https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17772 if I had
> to guess.

Seems so.

Cheers,
       Sven