Beware of rebooting in rawhide right now

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Jul 7 23:29:44 UTC 2012


There are some bugs in systemd, plymouth and maybe dracut that will make it 
very difficult to get your system rebooted if you have an encrypted home 
(or other non-root) file system. It's possible this will also be the case 
now even if you don't have encrypted partitions.
Currently when the boot is failing, systemd appears to be confused about 
the state of the system and writes some files (/etc/profile and 
/etc/fstab) as though the root pivot hadn't happened yet.
The git3 kernel was crashing and booting using an encypted root has worked 
for initramsfs images built within the last week. So there isn't a lot of 
incentive to reboot to test new kernels right now anyway.


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