[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#746587: Increasing severity, as this renders systems with NFS unbootable.

[Erich Schubert]

severity 746587 grave
thanks

grave: makes the system deadlock badly on boot.

Patch is available, and should be applied as soon as possible for the
affected versions.

RECOVERY INSTRUCTIONS for other bitten by the same bug:
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1. in the boot manager, append "emergency" to your kernel command line
(usually, after "ro quiet" or similar)
2. log in with the root password
3. run "mount -o remount,rw /" to make your file system writable
4. edit "/etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs" and insert "exit 0" early on,
or move the file to a different directory.
5. reboot.
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I have not re-tested this procedure, but it is supposed to break the deadlock:
Step 4 disables the non-systemd way of automounting NFS.
The provided patch in #746587 is much cleaner, but harder to apply
from the recovery console.