Package: systemd Version: 215-17+deb8u6 Severity: normal Hi, on jessie (amd64 kvm/qemu VM) I can reliably trigger this:
| systemd[1]: Got automount request for (null), triggered by 1767 (ls) | systemd[1]: Assertion 'path' failed at ../src/shared/mkdir.c:79, function mkdir_parents_internal(). Aborting. | systemd[1]: Caught <ABRT>, dumped core as pid 1768. | systemd[1]: Freezing execution. assertion error as follows: } (Ensure proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount is not masked) } } ### disable module loading } echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/modules_disabled } } ### trigger binfmt automount } ls -l /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/ } } ### check that proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount has failed } systemctl --failed } } ### mask the automounter } systemctl mask proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount } } ### tail the jornal (optional) } journalctl -f & } } ### trigger the assertion error } ls -l /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/ This came up because we mask proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount using puppet and then systemd froze on all our hosts and things were very sad until the world got rebooted. Cheers, -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- https://www.debian.org/