Bug#1023515: Re: systemd-pcrphase sysinit hangs blocking boot when tpm2-abrmd installed

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Luca

Am 16.11.22 um 10:51 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:01:00 +0100 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>
> wrote:

>> @Luca: you closed this bug report, and I wonder why?
> 
> Workaround that will stop the race condition was backported to 252.1:
> 
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/commit/1757446e8bc4dc076badd5c1ad53a0021c42638c



Ah, ok. I thought this required 
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/25393 which is not yet available 
in the Debian package.
If 1757446e8bc4dc076badd5c1ad53a0021c42638c is indeed already 
sufficient, then a short ref to the upstream commit in the close message 
would have been great as this would have avoided any confusion (on my side).


 >
 > No need for a conflict, for the next release we'll fix it to force
 > using the kernel driver as the default. On old systems with older tpms
 > the userspace manager might be needed for late-boot stuff, which is a
 > legitimate use case. It's the early-boot usage that is a problem.
 >

Agreed, if no conflicts is necessary, even better.
The popcon number of tpm2-abrmd is rather high [1] and I don't see a 
package Depending or Recommending it. So I wonder why that is (did/does 
d-i install it?) and if we can/should do something about it.


Regards,
Michael

[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tpm2-abrmd
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