Beware of rebooting in rawhide right now

Roger Barraud roger.barraud at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 02:39:11 UTC 2012


No freakin' kidding :(

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> 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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Regards
Roger Barraud
Auckland
New Zealand
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