Bug 1046313

Summary: systemd-journald prevents system to remount ro in rescue mode
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ali Akcaagac <aliakc>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: johannbg, lnykryn, msekleta, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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Description Ali Akcaagac 2013-12-24 13:34:27 UTC
I just switched from Fedora 18 to Fedora 20 and figured out that the system can not be remounted ro by issuing

mount / -o ro,remount

This usually returns "/ busy" as answer. After some investigations I figured out that "systemd-journald" is the cause of keeping the system busy. This was NOT the case in any older Fedora versions < 18 and took me a long time to figure out. I would like to ask whether this can be reviewed to NOT keep / busy and immidiately allow a remount read-only as it used to be in pre-systemd times and all other systems ?

trying this will not help:

systemctl stop systemd-journald

Sometimes it works, sometimes not. It's also a matter of timing. But there should be a sane solution for this.

PS: Yes I know! Plenty of issues I reported about journald the past days.

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-12-24 15:19:49 UTC
Something like this has been on the TODO list for a while. We need to be able to tell journald to start logging to /run/log/journal, for the purposes of clean shutdown. The ability to do that would solve your problem also.

Comment 2 Jaroslav Kysela 2013-12-29 14:57:24 UTC
*** Bug 1045837 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson 2014-01-02 08:44:26 UTC
So like this monitoring example of /proc/mounts and or /var/log would be needed ? 

     int mfd = open("/proc/mounts", O_RDONLY, 0);
     struct pollfd pfd;
     int rv;

     int changes = 0;
     pfd.fd = mfd;
     pfd.events = POLLERR | POLLPRI;
     pfd.revents = 0;
     while ((rv = poll(&pfd, 1, 5)) >= 0) {
          if (pfd.revents & POLLERR) {
               fprintf(stdout, "Mount points changed. %d.\n", changes++);
          }

          pfd.revents = 0;
          if (changes > 10) {
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
          }
     }


What's the general practice here as in should not systemd/journal be told that the mount point is ( or trying ) to be changed from rw to ro as opposed to have something that constantly checks if things have change?

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