Bug#1014872: Failure to load kernel modules at boot time

[Eduardo Casais]

Package: systemd
Version: 247.3-7

Dear Maintainers,

At boot time, linux produces a series of error messages stating that a 
kernel module cannot be loaded.

Inspecting the output of journalctl, I find the following lines:

Jun 29 16:53:25 AREPPIM001 systemd-modules-load[218]: Failed to insert 
module 'firewire_sbp2': Key was rejected by service
Jun 29 16:53:25 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: 
Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 29 16:53:25 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: 
Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 29 16:53:25 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

Jun 29 16:53:30 AREPPIM001 systemd-modules-load[442]: Failed to insert 
module 'firewire_sbp2': Key was rejected by service
Jun 29 16:53:30 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: 
Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 29 16:53:30 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: 
Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 29 16:53:30 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

Jun 29 16:53:35 AREPPIM001 systemd-modules-load[458]: Failed to insert 
module 'firewire_sbp2': Key was rejected by service
Jun 29 16:53:35 AREPPIM001 systemd-fsck[456]: /dev/sda7: clean, 
10088/720896 files, 376406/2880512 blocks
Jun 29 16:53:35 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: 
Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 29 16:53:35 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: 
Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 29 16:53:35 AREPPIM001 systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

All three attempts at loading the module firewire_sbp2 take place during 
the same boot sequence.

The error was definitely introduced by Bullseye / Debian 11, since the 
same machine under Buster / Debian 10 did not exhibit this behaviour:

Jun 21 16:06:42 AREPPIM001 kernel: firewire_ohci 0000:02:01.1: added 
OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 4 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x2
...
Jun 21 16:06:42 AREPPIM001 kernel: firewire_core 0000:02:01.1: created 
device fw0: GUID 314fc000300d2430, S400
...
Jun 21 16:06:42 AREPPIM001 systemd-modules-load[204]: Inserted module 
'firewire_sbp2'

The machine is running Linux 5.10.0-15-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 5.10.120-1 
(2022-06-09) i686 GNU/Linux.

Note: A previous version of this message was already sent which 
erroneously specified "system2" as the package affected.


Sincerely

Eduardo Casais