Bug#753392: systemd: fails to boot if system has a cgroup mount point

[Michael Biebl]

Am 01.07.2014 13:52, schrieb Tzafrir Cohen:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 44-11+deb7u4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> I have installed systemd on this Wheezy laptop as well as on a test
> Jessie system and on both systems the system failed to later boot due to
> the same reason: the system already has an fstab entry for cgroup (for
> using lxc). This has failed the boot of systemd.
> 
> It took me a while to detect the issue at the first time, as the actual
> error message was burried before many unrelated log messages.
> 
> Is there any way to detect the issue ahead of time?

We might add a preinst check for that to systemd-sysv if we can detect
it reliably. The user would then get a debconf prompt with an
explanation of the situation and how to fix it and would have to confirm
if he wants to continue with the installation. Otherwise preinst and the
installation would fail.

There are rough plans to do the same for missing devices in /etc/fstab
(which will cause the system to be dropped into a rescue shell) and the
usage of keyscript in /etc/crypttab.




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