Bug#801961: debian stretch amd64 netinst: no xfsprogs. xfs on root fails to boot.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 08:34:46PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2015-10-17):
>> I've cloned this bug report and move the new bug over to the grub-pc
>> package now, to help us track it. Until that's fixed, it's probably
>> worth us adding a check in d-i and recommending the use of a /boot
>> partition with XFS for now. KiBi: what do you think about that?
>
>I have only very limited (mental) bandwidth for that right now but from
>a quick look, that doesn't look like a bad idea.
OK, I'll look into that.
>> >Booting to new install fails with message:
>> >
>> >"systemd[1]: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing
>> >to /proc/self/mounts. This is not supported anymore. Please
>> >replace /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.
>> >systemd[1]: Freezing execution." (timestamps omitted)
>>
>> ACK - I've just seen that mentioned in another bug log elsewhere today
>> (#802025 - a stupid systemd mis-feature to hang hard here,
>> sigh). Currently grub-installer (at the very least) faithfully updates
>> /etc/mtab during d-i, and I guess we should also change that
>> too. Maybe just simply rm /target/etc/mtab as part of d-i
>> finalisation. KiBi?
>
>TBH I have no idea what d-i is doing at the moment; I thought we have
>/etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts, at least in installed systems? This
>seems to be the case here on multiple systems at least:
>
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 12 20:41 /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts
>
>I realize this doesn't immediately answer your question, just
>mentioning…
The evidence suggests otherwise, including the discussion at
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1495#issuecomment-148744470
and in the log for #802025. It seems that this is *new* stupid
behaviour in systemd; previously an extra script in the Debian setup
would fix things up later after boot, but now it doesn't get that
far. A simple test with today's daily netinst confirms - I see the
same problem.
I've just checked in a quick-hack fix in finish-install for now.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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