Re: Bug#872999: qemu image built by vmdebootstrap is unbootable due to bad root=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 kernel parameter

2017-09-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This is strange because schroot does bind-mount /dev in the default > > profile that I used: > > Then I don't know what's going wrong in your chroot environment. Me neither. > > Assuming your analysis is right, what would be the right course of

Re: Bug#872999: qemu image built by vmdebootstrap is unbootable due to bad root=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 kernel parameter

2017-09-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Ben, On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The answer seems to be that udev doesn't just listen for device events, > but also uses inotify to watch block devices. But inotify operates on > inodes, not the underlying devices. The chroot has a separate /dev > directory and inodes, so

Re: Bug#872999: qemu image built by vmdebootstrap is unbootable due to bad root=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 kernel parameter

2017-09-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 07 Sep 2017, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 12:53 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Sep 2017, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > What informs udev about the new filesystem? > > > > Somehow, it's the kernel apparently. > > > &g

Re: Bug#872999: qemu image built by vmdebootstrap is unbootable due to bad root=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 kernel parameter

2017-09-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 07 Sep 2017, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Is there anything that can be done by vmdebootstrap to force-trigger the > creation of that entry even when chrooted? Yes, "udevadm trigger" or "udevadm trigger /dev/mapper/loop0p1" works well for that. So we have a wo

Re: Bug#872999: qemu image built by vmdebootstrap is unbootable due to bad root=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 kernel parameter

2017-09-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 07 Sep 2017, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > What informs udev about the new filesystem? Somehow, it's the kernel apparently. > Or is this a bug in the kernel really? At least "udevadm monitor" shows that the kernel is sending less uevents when I run the command in the chro

Re: Bug#872999: qemu image built by vmdebootstrap is unbootable due to bad root=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 kernel parameter

2017-09-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Ccing grub, udev, linux maintainers for the questions at the end, I want to understand why some /dev/disk/by-uuid/ entries are not properly created ] Hello, On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to update my qemu image used for autopkgtest, so I > followed the

Bug#872598: udev-udeb: no input in graphical installer

2017-08-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > The attached patch seems to do the trick, will upload after a full build > > inside sbuild, then open a bug report as you suggested on IRC, so that > > you think about reverting this when the gcc-7 bug is fixed. > > I initially meant to add g++

Bug#854400: systemd: FTBFS if /tmp is an overlayfs

2017-08-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6656 On Mon, 06 Feb 2017, James Cowgill wrote: > > I think this is a bug in overlayfs. > > Well it's the documented behavior of overlayfs which others have > probably relied on, so I think it's very unlikely overlayfs will be >

Bug#872598: udev-udeb: no input in graphical installer

2017-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I've only quickly glanced at the contents of both packages, and debdiff > mentions no obvious issues (file lists are the same). I believe this is precisely the problem. The new udev-udeb should include a new file: diff --git

Bug#822670: dh-systemd should be merged into debhelper

2016-07-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Michael Biebl wrote: > With todays upload of src:init-system-helpers, the move from > dh_systemd_* from dh-systemd to debhelper has been completed. > Do you think we should do a MBF for getting the reverse > build-dependencies updated to use a versioned b-dep on debhelper

Bug#824025: udev: Please split rule for MAC-based name of USB network interface out of 73-special-net-names.rules

2016-05-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 11 May 2016, Martin Pitt wrote: > Done: > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=b72e3d3b Thanks! > I also changed the rule to be inert when "net.ifnames=0" is given on > the kernel command line, to be consistent with the *.link files: Excellent idea. I even

Bug#824025: udev: Please split rule for MAC-based name of USB network interface out of 73-special-net-names.rules

2016-05-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Package: udev Version: 229-5 Severity: wishlist User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali Kali opted to revert the new names of network interfaces and as such we used to run the following command in our live image: ln -sf /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/90-mac-for-usb.link ln -sf /dev/null

Bug#772555: untested hacky attempt at using systemctl preset

2016-03-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Martin, On Sun, 13 Mar 2016, Martin Pitt wrote: > Many thanks for working on this! > > However, this breaks the test suite left and right: > > http://paste.ubuntu.com/15378313/ > > on a lot of "No such file or directory" or "unable to read > footest.service" errors? Duh, I missed the

Bug#772555: untested hacky attempt at using systemctl preset

2016-03-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 04 Mar 2016, Felipe Sateler wrote: > This is only needed when creating links manually. As noted above, when > invoking via systemctl it does the reload automatically. Ok. So here's the final patch that I'm now using in Kali. It seems to work from the quick tests that I did. And I

Bug#772555: untested hacky attempt at using systemctl preset

2016-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Andreas, thanks for working on this patch! I want to test your patch in Kali and make it ready for inclusion. But there are things that I don't really understand... On Wed, 02 Mar 2016, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Please note that perl warns about the smartmatch being experimental. >

Bug#772555: untested hacky attempt at using systemctl preset

2016-03-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 04 Mar 2016, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > So I have read about what smartmatch does... but basically I think it > > does not do what you wanted to do. So can you tell me what you wanted > > to test? > > The end result is only used for "changed something" (or not). > > See:

Bug#772555: init-system-helpers: deb-systemd-helper does not respect systemd Preset files

2016-02-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Andreas and debhelper maintainers, I saw the move of update-rc.d to init-system-helpers in 805487 and the bug mentioned some plans for further changes to move dh_systemd_enable and related functionality to debhelper... I would like to draw the attention of people interested in that to the

Re: broken mount behaviour on jessie

2016-02-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 01 Feb 2016, Brian May wrote: > I see two patches here - one patch applies easy enough to schroot - > 1.6-schroot-mount-make-bind-mounts-private.patch > > I am not sure what the > master-libexec-mount-make-bind-mounts-private.patch is for, it seems to > patch files not in schroot but

Re: sysv-rc: [patch] much improved update-rc.d integration w/ systemd

2015-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Control: severity -1 serious On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Florian Schlichting wrote: I think the severity should be raised - the working of update-rc.d ought to be improved for jessie. Done now. I will file a separate bug on openbsd-inetd for the problem I encountered. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈