[packages/systemd] - this version is broken in an interesting way, rebooted during upgrade and then became unable to

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020, Jan Rękorajski wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Jan Palus wrote:
> > 
> > > On 10.06.2020 09:35, baggins wrote:
> > > > commit bcc348b831315aef4775c2f8f9c3b349b3337d5b
> > > > Author: Jan Rękorajski <baggins at pld-linux.org>
> > > > Date:   Wed Jun 10 09:35:13 2020 +0200
> > > > 
> > > >     - this version is broken in an interesting way, rebooted during upgrade
> > > >       and then became unable to boot fully
> > > 
> > > Any clue what went wrong? Worked fine for me in a VM and on real hardware (efi +
> > > secure boot + full disk enc + grub2 + dracut).
> > 
> > Unfortunately not. I run 'poldek -F *' expecting systemd update, went to
> > grab some coffee and came back to system stuck at reboot. I had to forcing
> > the reboot via sysrq-b, since it was abvious that it wasn't a sservice
> > issue. After that the workstation couldn't properly boot. No X, kust waiting
> > for someting. I was able to access text console, downgrade got my system back in
> > order.
> > 
> > I'll try to figure out WTF happened, time permitting.
> 
> I've seen you applied some fixes, thanks for all your work.
> 
> There is some progress. Once again I tried the update, and again my
> system went straight to shutdown/reboot. The difference this time is
> that after I did force the reboot via sysrq-b, my workstation is fully
> functional now. So, progress :)
> 
> Seems to me like 'systemctl daemon-reload' is doing something bad.
> Unfortunately I'm unable to catch what's going on, it just happens too
> fast.
> 
> I'll try rebuilding 245.6-0.1 and updating it to check if that's a
> one-time issue.

Yes, there must be some intricate issue when updating from 244 to 245.
Updating 245 to 245 shows no side effects, clean restart.

If you know of anything I should look at, or have any pointers where
should I dig, I'm open to suggestions.

BTW, did anyone else try to do the update? Folks?

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Jan Rękorajski                    | PLD/Linux
SysAdm | baggins<at>pld-linux.org | http://www.pld-linux.org/