Bug#754121: aiccu fails to start with systemd

[Pascal Volk]

On 11/14/2014 09:44 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Lowering severity to important. Causing a package for removal because
> somebody decided on a new init system that is not backwards compatible
> is not a critical thing.

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| critical
|   makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break …
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As mentioned in my message from yesterday, the system is unable to
finish the boot process. The message `A start job is running for LSB: …'
can't be interrupted. While the red asterisks are moving from left to
right and back again, there is only one accepted keyboard shortcut:

        Ctrl+Alt+Del

So I'm able to reboot the system. But even in single user / recovery
mode systemd tries to start aiccu.
The only workaround, known to me, is enabling systemd's debug shell. In
the (INSECURE!) debug shell I'm able to find out the PID of the
systemclt job, which tries to start aiccu. Then I'm able to kill that job.

For me, the problem is *critical*, with the symptoms described above.

> Also, you can always start AICCU simply by typing 'aiccu start' which is
> what the init script does.

This is what I've done within the last months, since I've reported the
problem.


> I'll install a VM over the weekend and check what the heck is wrong with
> this and resolve it properly.

Maybe you'll find the patch from the Gentoo project useful.
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/aiccu/files/aiccu-2007.01.15-systemd.patch?view=markup


> It would be extremely useful if you can actually provide logs and other
> details btw.

Sorry, there are not much useful information. After killing the
systemctl job - up to three times - the system boots.

Contents of syslog:
host aiccu[1092]: Successfully retrieved tunnel information for T12345
host aiccu[1138]: AICCU running as PID 1138

In the initial report message I've attached a few relevant lines from
journalctl. This time I'm attaching the last available lines of
systemd's debug shell.


Regards,
Pascal
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             | `-742 /bin/systemctl start aiccu
             |-systemd-journald.service
             | `-226 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
             |-mdmonitor.service
             | `-489 /sbin/mdadm --monitor --scan
             |-systemd-udevd.service
             | `-245 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
             `-debug-shell.service
               |-215 /bin/bash
               |-745 systemctl status
               `-746 systemctl status
[    **] A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. (26s / no 
limit)
[*     ] A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. (37s / no 
limit)
* el-presidente
    State: starting
     Jobs: 61 queued
   Failed: 0 units
    Since: Fri 2014-11-14 20:58:51 CET; 48s ago
   CGroup: /
           |-1 /sbin/init
           `-system.slice
             |-networking.service
             | |-673 /bin/sh -e /etc/init.d/networking start
             | |-680 ifup -a
             | |-741 /bin/sh -c /bin/systemctl start aiccu
             | `-742 /bin/systemctl start aiccu
             |-systemd-journald.service
             | `-226 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
             |-mdmonitor.service
             | `-489 /sbin/mdadm --monitor --scan
             |-systemd-udevd.service
             | `-245 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
             `-debug-shell.service
               |-215 /bin/bash
               |-747 systemctl status
               `-748 pager
[   ***] A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. (40s / no 
limit)
[**    ] A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. (1min / no 
limit)
[  *** ] A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. (1min 8s / 
no limit)
* el-presidente
    State: starting
     Jobs: 61 queued
   Failed: 0 units
    Since: Fri 2014-11-14 20:58:51 CET; 1min 18s ago
   CGroup: /
           |-1 /sbin/init
           `-system.slice
             |-networking.service
             | |-673 /bin/sh -e /etc/init.d/networking start
             | |-680 ifup -a
             | |-741 /bin/sh -c /bin/systemctl start aiccu
             | `-742 /bin/systemctl start aiccu
             |-systemd-journald.service
             | `-226 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
             |-mdmonitor.service
             | `-489 /sbin/mdadm --monitor --scan
             |-systemd-udevd.service
             | `-245 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
             `-debug-shell.service
               |-215 /bin/bash
               |-749 systemctl status
               `-750 pager
[   ***] A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. (1min 18s / 
no limit)
[  *** ] A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. (1min 18s / 
no limit)

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