On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:56:25 +0100 Eric Valette <eric.vale...@free.fr> wrote: > Package: systemd > Version: 247~rc2-2 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > I have updated several machine with experimental version and they did break for > various reasosn during install: > > 1) One is a NAS that I was updating via ssh. during update, the ssh session closed, > it was impossible to open a new one, and as the machine is headless, very difficult to > know what happened. The power button did an acpi shutdwon and the machine > did restart, but trying to do apt-get -f install, I have been prompted to do a > dpkg --configure -a because update was interrupted. After that the machine was > operationnal again > 2) One was a laptop, running a very recent kernel 5.9.8, This time i did update > logged on a X11 kde konsole. During update, the entire X session crashed, virtual > terminal were unreachable, remote login was impossible. Doing a CTRL-ALT-DEL, > somehow did shutdown the machine but rebooting was impossible. I had to select > an old kernel with its own initramfs, and to downgrade systemd to the one from > unstable to get things back on order.
Are you configuring your NAS with ifupdown (using allow-hotplug). Fwiw, that sounds very much like https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17605#issuecomment-727187837
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