Beware of rebooting in rawhide right now

Roger Barraud roger.barraud at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 03:03:35 UTC 2012


Is there a suggested recovery strategy for backing out to a bootable state?

Thanks :)

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Roger Barraud <roger.barraud at gmail.com>wrote:

> No freakin' kidding :(
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> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
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>> 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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> Roger Barraud
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Regards
Roger Barraud
Auckland
New Zealand
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