[arch-general] at times when booting system-logind fails and system hangs

[Steven Noonan]

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Figue <ffigue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/05/15 00:03, Steven Noonan wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> This is unrelated, but does Arch Linux respect rootwait?
>>>
>>> Linux does, :-)  I don't need on this laptop, but I have Arch also on
>>> a USB disk, and for that one, at times linux doesn't find root, so I
>>> found it just needed to wait for it to become available...
>>>
>>>> I don't see any issues in there that'd cause your systemd issues. Did
>>>> you try
>>>> reinstalling systemd?
>>>
>>> No I haven't.  Though I wouldn't suppose such re-install (if no new
>>> version implied) would help.  I'll upgrade Arch to see.  The other
>>> option is to tried the systemd patches, or the patched systemd offered
>>> by Christian.  I haven't done that either...
>>
>> For what it's worth I've been having these same issues. systemd-logind
>> fails to start with "connection timed out" and then everything is
>> useless until the machine is reset. On most of my machines it happens
>> in maybe 1 out of every 10 boots, but on one of my machines it's
>> *every* boot. I can't figure out what's causing it, even with
>> systemd.log_level=debug.
>>
>> I'm noticing that right before the systemd-logind timeout messages it
>> tries to start "dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork
>> --nopidfile --systemd-activation" -- it seems like this should have
>> happened much earlier though, when dbus.socket started. Or am I
>> misunderstanding the relationship between dbus.socket and
>> dbus.service?
>>
>> - Steven
>
> I made some research some time ago and I found this:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=13790add4bf64 which
> seems that is the commit that make a regression in journald. That causes
> boot failures due to logind. This Debian bug report has more information:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778970
>
> So applying this patch in systemd package should avoid the bug:
> http://hastebin.com/idaquqarud.coffee
>
> Just add to prepare() in the PKGBUILD. Something like this:
> http://hastebin.com/roqabepilo.vhdl
>
> I've been running this patched version for a few months and it works fine.
>
> Joan Figueras

I found a lead elsewhere about a different patch, and it unbroke the
system that was reproing most frequently:

http://git.uplinklabs.net/snoonan/projects/archlinux/ec2/ec2-packages.git/commit/?id=6c3808517445a171e0c7f84b6888c035cb24e0f6