Hi, I am in the process of setting up a fairly standard busybox to act as an initrd and rescue environment. The idea is to use a fedora kernel in which all boot-time needed modules are compiled in so we can boot all of our hardware from the same initrd.
The initrd is supposed to do some boot-time checks and if all checks succeed switch_root to the os-image or else start busybox. We have used this setup successfully for quite a while with traditional init's and upstart and would like to use this in combination with systemd as well. However on startup my fedora-16 system seems to timeout on something and drops me to sulogin. The setup uses a separate /var which is a logical-volume which is not mounted by systemd. If I add 'mount /var' at the the of /lib/systemd/fedora-storage-init the mount succeeds and the system boots up. basically it passes * /dev/ as a devtmpfs with /dev/mapper and /dev/$volumegroup populated by what mdev (from busybox) has found. * /dev/pts * /dev/shm * /proc and /sys * /run populated by /run fromrootfs Here is what the console says: [ 3323.704330] fedora-storage-init[418]: Setting up Logical Volume Management: 4 logical volume(s) in volume group "rootvg" now active Started Initialize storage subsystems (RAID, LVM, etc.). Starting Initialize storage subsystems (RAID, LVM, etc.)... [ 3323.715296] fedora-storage-init[418]: [ OK ] [ 3323.814747] fedora-storage-init[426]: Setting up Logical Volume Management: 4 logical volume(s) in volume group "rootvg" now active Started Initialize storage subsystems (RAID, LVM, etc.). Starting Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling... [ 3323.830191] fedora-storage-init[426]: [ OK ] [ 3323.868762] lvm[433]: 4 logical volume(s) in volume group "rootvg" monitored Started Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling. [ 3410.674351] systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.device/start timed out. Starting /var aborted because a dependency failed. Starting Lock Directory aborted because a dependency failed. [ 3410.678878] systemd[1]: Job var-lock.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'. Here is what dmesg says after a 'systemctl start var.mount': [ 3584.206249] systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.device/start timed out. A dependency job failed. See system logs for details. [root@leo-virt2 ~]# [ 3584.212365] systemd[1]: Job var.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'. [ 3584.214447] systemd[1]: Job fsck@dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. [ 3584.217263] systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. [root@leo-virt2 ~]# dmesg [ 3494.202166] systemd[1]: Accepted connection on private bus. [ 3494.202181] systemd[1]: Running GC... [ 3494.205874] systemd[1]: Got D-Bus request: org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.StartUnit() on /org/freedesktop/systemd1 [ 3494.205917] systemd[1]: Trying to enqueue job var.mount/start/replace [ 3494.205997] systemd[1]: Installed new job var.mount/start as 253 [ 3494.206044] systemd[1]: Installed new job fsck@dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.service/start as 256 [ 3494.206071] systemd[1]: Installed new job dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.device/start as 257 [ 3494.206123] systemd[1]: Enqueued job var.mount/start as 253 [ 3494.206465] systemd[1]: Got D-Bus request: org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.GetUnit() on /org/freedesktop/systemd1 [ 3494.206614] systemd[1]: Got D-Bus request: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get() on /org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/var_2emount [ 3584.206249] systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.device/start timed out. [ 3584.208459] systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.device/start finished, result=timeout [ 3584.208493] systemd[1]: Job var.mount/start finished, result=dependency [ 3584.212365] systemd[1]: Job var.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'. [ 3584.214401] systemd[1]: Job fsck@dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.service/start finished, result=dependency [ 3584.214447] systemd[1]: Job fsck@dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. [ 3584.217263] systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-rootvg\x2dfc16_64var.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. [ 3584.220062] systemd[1]: Got D-Bus request: org.freedesktop.DBus.Local.Disconnected() on /org/freedesktop/DBus/Local Could somebody care to explain what systemd is timing out on, or how to find the culprit? -- Leo Baltus, internetbeheerder /\ NPO ICT Internet Services /NPO/\ Sumatralaan 45, 1217 GP Hilversum, Filmcentrum, west \ /\/ beh...@omroep.nl, 035-6773555 \/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
