forwarded 757072 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82778
thanks

Am 05.08.2014 06:49, schrieb Francois Gouget:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 208-6
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After an upgrade Debian started to fail booting due to a simple fstab error.
> Because of the 'quiet' option, the default 'Debian GNU/Linux' Grub entry was 
> producing no indication of the error, and furthermore entered in a loop 
> claiming to go into emergency mode but in fact never allowing any input:
> 
>   Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xd" to view
>   system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" to try again
>   to boot into default mode.
>   Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xd" to view
>   system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" to try again
>   to boot into default mode.
>   [...]
> 
> I suppose that's not quite normal but that's not the subject of this bug.

Yeah, this is already tracked in

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755581

This seems to be fixed in newer upstream releases and for v208 there
exists a workaround (adding Conflicts=syslog.sockets to emergency.service)

> So then I picked Grub's 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (recovery 
> mode)' menu entry. This resulted in the following output:
> 
> 
>   Welcome to rescue mode! Type "systemctl default" or ^D to enter default 
> mode.
>   Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xd" to view
>   Type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs. Type "systemctl reboot" to 
> reboot.
>   system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" to try again
>   to boot into default mode.
>   Give root password for maintenance
>   Give root password for maintenance
>   (or type Control-D to continue): (or type Control-D o continue):
> 
> What happens here is that both the emergency and rescue shells are enabled 
> and take turns at random using stdin and stdout. The consequence is that both 
> shells are totally unusable as any keystroke gets sent semi-randomly to one 
> or the other, making it impossible to get a proper command through.

I forwarded this upstream as
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82778

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