On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 08:34:46PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> (2015-10-17): >> I've cloned this bug report and move the new bug over to the grub-pc >> package now, to help us track it. Until that's fixed, it's probably >> worth us adding a check in d-i and recommending the use of a /boot >> partition with XFS for now. KiBi: what do you think about that? > >I have only very limited (mental) bandwidth for that right now but from >a quick look, that doesn't look like a bad idea.
OK, I'll look into that. >> >Booting to new install fails with message: >> > >> >"systemd[1]: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing >> >to /proc/self/mounts. This is not supported anymore. Please >> >replace /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. >> >systemd[1]: Freezing execution." (timestamps omitted) >> >> ACK - I've just seen that mentioned in another bug log elsewhere today >> (#802025 - a stupid systemd mis-feature to hang hard here, >> sigh). Currently grub-installer (at the very least) faithfully updates >> /etc/mtab during d-i, and I guess we should also change that >> too. Maybe just simply rm /target/etc/mtab as part of d-i >> finalisation. KiBi? > >TBH I have no idea what d-i is doing at the moment; I thought we have >/etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts, at least in installed systems? This >seems to be the case here on multiple systems at least: > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 12 20:41 /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts > >I realize this doesn't immediately answer your question, just >mentioning… The evidence suggests otherwise, including the discussion at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1495#issuecomment-148744470 and in the log for #802025. It seems that this is *new* stupid behaviour in systemd; previously an extra script in the Debian setup would fix things up later after boot, but now it doesn't get that far. A simple test with today's daily netinst confirms - I see the same problem. I've just checked in a quick-hack fix in finish-install for now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray
