I have found this to be locally reproducible with: $ autopkgtest --shell-fail --apt-upgrade --no-built-binaries --testname=boot-and-services --apt-pocket=proposed=src:systemd,src:dbus,src:iproute2,src:glibc systemd_239-7ubuntu6.dsc -- qemu --qemu-options='-cpu host' --qemu-command=qemu-system-i386 --cpus 8 --ram-size=4096 ~/autopkgtest-cosmic-i386.img
What I see is that it really is failing. There are plenty of crashes in journal but those seem to be a swarm of red herring. The first start of gdm ends with X11 initializing and giving up like: /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[pid]: dbus-daemon[1112]: [session uid=119 pid=1112] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.0' (uid=119 pid=1053 comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session gnome-session --autost" label="unconfined") /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[pid]: dbus-daemon[1112]: [session uid=119 pid=1112] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[pid]: Unable to register display with display manager But if you log in later and run "systemctl restart gdm" then all initializes as it is supposed to. It seems something yet unknown isn't available at early boot. I compared the X11 init of good/bad case but there is no difference (e.g. in detected HW), the first things that fails/differs is the org.freedesktop.systemd1 activation. But the boot start of gdm seems to be really (too early?) as halfway through I see: "Reached target Basic System" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790478 Title: gdm3 in cosmic fails to start fully in autopkgtest Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: New Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In systemd package for a while, there is a boot-and-services test case, which tries to install common/typical things and ensure they continue to operate with new systemd. One of the test cases is gdm3. The test case dependencies are: Tests: boot-and-services Depends: systemd-sysv, systemd, udev, systemd-container, systemd-coredump, libpam-systemd, xserver-xorg-video-dummy, xserver-xorg, gdm3 [!s390x], cron, network-manager, busybox-static, apparmor, pkg-config, python3 The test does following: out = subprocess.check_output(['ps', 'u', '-C', 'gdm-x-session']) self.assertIn(b'gdm-x-session gnome-session', out) out = subprocess.check_output(['ps', 'u', '-C', 'Xorg']) self.assertIn(b'Xorg vt1', out) self.active_unit('gdm') However, this now errors out upon the first command, meaning gdm-x-session is not running anymore. On bionic, this test case continues to operate correctly in the autopkgtest cloud. test_gdm3 (__main__.ServicesTest) ... ERROR ====================================================================== ERROR: test_gdm3 (__main__.ServicesTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/autopkgtest.RNx2A1/build.2Wy/src/debian/tests/boot-and-services", line 66, in test_gdm3 out = subprocess.check_output(['ps', 'u', '-C', 'gdm-x-session']) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 336, in check_output **kwargs).stdout File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 418, in run output=stdout, stderr=stderr) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['ps', 'u', '-C', 'gdm-x-session']' returned non-zero exit status 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 24 tests in 18.974s FAILED (errors=1) From http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/systemd/cosmic/i386 Thus it looks like there is a regression or a change of behavior of gdm3 in the cloud in cosmic; since bionic continues to work correctly. I will mark this test as an expected failure for now, and monitor it separately, as currently, this is blocking many migrations. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1790478/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
