Bug#976699: 247 breaks some by-label mounts

[Michael Biebl]

Thanks for the detailed bug report

Am 07.12.20 um 11:53 schrieb 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.

Nod. If there is no 247.2 soonish with this fix included, we will 
cherry-pick that commit.

Michael