Package: systemd-sysv Version: 204-14 Severity: critical Justification: impossible to boot system
(The severity seems inflated, but it didn't fit any of the lower RC levels and it should be RC IMO. It is also pretty easy to fix, I hope, so I'd suggest doing that instead of worrying about the proper severity.) My system had some serious hard drive problems and because of that remounted my root file system read-only. Before investigating anything, I rebooted the system to see if that would solve anything. On reboot, fsck was run and it failed, telling me to run it manually. Then it provided me a shell. So far so good. However, fsck / failed because the filesystem was mounted read-write. mount / -o remount,ro failed because the filesystem was busy. This being my only computer at that moment, I did not have internet to look up how to do this in systemd (which I'm guessing has a way to make remounting read-only work, but I'm not familiar with it). The only reason I was able to continue, was that after some trying it hit a bad file and automatically remounted the filesystem read-only. At that point, I could run fsck and it would boot again, allowing me to proceed with diagnosing the problem. My suggested solution is to document the method for remounting the root filesystem read-only (or the method for getting help on the commands that do such things) in the error message that says fsck must be run manually, or perhaps whenever a shell is spawned so early during boot. This is essential to be able to rescue the system, and since it's changed compared to how it worked for decades, you can't assume that everyone knows how to do it. This is even more important given systemd's dependency scheme which installs it on machines where the owner isn't aware of it. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages systemd-sysv depends on: ii systemd 204-14 systemd-sysv recommends no packages. systemd-sysv suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
