Bug#1077204: systemd fails to boot on a 5.4 kernel

[Kornilios Kourtis]

Package: systemd
Version: 256.4-2

Hi,

systemd fails to boot on 5.4 kernels (other kernels seem to work). The
logs below are from 5.4.280, but trying with older kernels has the same
effect.

SELinux:  Could not open policy file <= /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.33:  No such file or directory
[    1.136915] systemd[1]: systemd 256.4-2 running in system mode (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +APPARMOR +IMA +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT -GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CU
RL +ELFUTILS +FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN +IPTC +KMOD +LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBCRYPTSETUP_PLUGINS +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 +PWQUALITY +P11KIT +QRENCODE +TPM2 +BZIP2 +LZ4 +XZ +ZLIB +ZST
D +BPF_FRAMEWORK -XKBCOMMON +UTMP +SYSVINIT +LIBARCHIVE)
[    1.139048] systemd[1]: Detected virtualization kvm.
[    1.139402] systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64.

Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid!

[    1.140500] systemd[1]: Hostname set to <kind-5.4>.
[    1.160170] systemd[1]: bpf-restrict-fs: BPF LSM hook not enabled in the kernel, BPF LSM not supported.
[    1.169448] systemd-tpm2-ge (89) used greatest stack depth: 14272 bytes left
[    1.171050] systemd-debug-g (79) used greatest stack depth: 13576 bytes left
[  OK  ] Created slice system-getty.slice - Slice /system/getty.
[  OK  ] Created slice system-modprobe.slice - Slice /system/modprobe.
[  OK  ] Created slice system-serial\x2dget…slice - Slice /system/serial-getty.
[  OK  ] Created slice user.slice - User and Session Slice.
[  OK  ] Started systemd-ask-password-conso…equests to Console Directory Watch.
[  OK  ] Started systemd-ask-password-wall.…d Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[  OK  ] Set up automount proc-sys-fs-binfm…ormats File System Automount Point.
         Expecting device dev-ttyS0.device - /dev/ttyS0...
[  OK  ] Reached target paths.target - Path Units.
[  OK  ] Reached target remote-fs.target - Remote File Systems.
[  OK  ] Reached target slices.target - Slice Units.
[  OK  ] Reached target swap.target - Swaps.
[  OK  ] Reached target timers.target - Timer Units.
[  OK  ] Listening on systemd-creds.socket - Credential Encryption/Decryption.
[  OK  ] Listening on systemd-initctl.socke…- initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[  OK  ] Listening on systemd-journald-dev-…socket - Journal Socket (/dev/log).
[  OK  ] Listening on systemd-journald.socket - Journal Sockets.
[  OK  ] Listening on systemd-networkd.socket - Network Service Netlink Socket.
[  OK  ] Listening on systemd-udevd-control.socket - udev Control Socket.
[  OK  ] Listening on systemd-udevd-kernel.socket - udev Kernel Socket.
[FAILED] Failed to mount dev-hugepages.mount - Huge Pages File System.
See 'systemctl status dev-hugepages.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to mount dev-mqueue.mount - POSIX Message Queue File System.
See 'systemctl status dev-mqueue.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to mount run-lock.mount - Legacy Locks Directory /run/lock.
See 'systemctl status run-lock.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to mount sys-kernel-debug.mount - Kernel Debug File System.
See 'systemctl status sys-kernel-debug.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to mount sys-kernel-tracing.mount - Kernel Trace File System.
See 'systemctl status sys-kernel-tracing.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to mount tmp.mount - Temporary Directory /tmp.
See 'systemctl status tmp.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to start modprobe at configfs.…vice - Load Kernel Module configfs.
See 'systemctl status modprobe at configfs.service' for details.
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cheers,
Kornilios.