Package: live-config Version: 5.20190415 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
When the package 'libnss-systemd' is included in a debian-live image, all attempts to boot the image fail, hanging forever at a particular point in the boot process. The following message appears in the console (all on one line), with the kinetic red "cylon" effect on the left, and a time counter counting up towards infinity on the right: ``[ *** ] A start job is running for live-config contains the components that configure a live system during the boot process (late userspace). (10min 1s / no limit)'' If it matters: I build my debian-live images with 'live-build', and I include all Standard priority packages with the one-line package list macro "! Packages Priority standard". In order to work around this hanging-boot problem, I have been blocking the 'libnss-systemd' package from my debian-live images via apt pinning. I have tried adding "live-config.debug" to the boot command line, but no additional useful information appears in the console. And, furthermore, I cannot access the debug logs in the live system, since tty consoles are not yet available at the point that the live-config service hangs the boot sequence. I have tried booting in both legacy/BIOS mode and in UEFI mode (with secure boot disabled), and the behaviour is the always the same: hanging boot. I maintain a number of debian-live build recipes in salsa. The following one can be used to create an ISO image that exhibits the hanging boot problem (just remove the pin in 'config/apt/preferences' before running the 'make.sh' script): https://salsa.debian.org/smonaica-guest/sid-standard-live.git Best regards, -S.M. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages live-config depends on: ii live-config-systemd [live-config-backend] 5.20190415 Versions of packages live-config recommends: ii iproute2 4.20.0-2 ii keyboard-configuration 1.191 ii live-config-doc 5.20190415 ii live-tools 1:20171207 ii locales 2.28-10 ii sudo 1.8.27-1 ii user-setup 1.81 Versions of packages live-config suggests: ii pciutils 1:3.5.2-5 ii wget 1.20.1-1.1 -- no debconf information
