Bug#974730: systemd 247~rc2-2 install crashed several system
Michael Biebl
biebl at debian.org
Sat Nov 14 12:54:14 GMT 2020
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:56:25 +0100 Eric Valette <eric.valette at free.fr>
wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 247~rc2-2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> I have updated several machine with experimental version and they did
break for
> various reasosn during install:
>
> 1) One is a NAS that I was updating via ssh. during update, the
ssh session closed,
> it was impossible to open a new one, and as the machine is
headless, very difficult to
> know what happened. The power button did an acpi shutdwon and
the machine
> did restart, but trying to do apt-get -f install, I have been
prompted to do a
> dpkg --configure -a because update was interrupted. After that
the machine was
> operationnal again
> 2) One was a laptop, running a very recent kernel 5.9.8, This
time i did update
> logged on a X11 kde konsole. During update, the entire X
session crashed, virtual
> terminal were unreachable, remote login was impossible. Doing a
CTRL-ALT-DEL,
> somehow did shutdown the machine but rebooting was impossible.
I had to select
> an old kernel with its own initramfs, and to downgrade systemd
to the one from
> unstable to get things back on order.
Are you configuring your NAS with ifupdown (using allow-hotplug).
Fwiw, that sounds very much like
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17605#issuecomment-727187837
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