Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1266298
systemd looping too fast
Last modified: 2015-10-08 23:20:27 EDT
Description of problem: I'm trying to install VirtualBox 5.0.x extensions and systemd doesn't like something. This results in an out of memory condition which freezes the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-222-4.fc23.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot virtual fedora 23 2.mount VBoxLinuxAdditions.iso on the loopback device 3.cd to where #2 mounts 4.type in ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 5.tail -f /var/log/messages Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Sep 24 18:44:16 fc23 systemd: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little. Sep 24 18:44:18 fc23 systemd: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little. Sep 24 18:44:20 fc23 systemd: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little. Sep 24 18:44:21 fc23 systemd: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little. Sep 24 18:44:23 fc23 systemd: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
I've had trouble installing the guest additions, too, also getting this message. From what I've seen, when systemctl is asked to start the vbox services, it keeps spawning processes: there is, e.g., one "systemctl enable vboxadd" process, followed by an increasing number of "systemctl enable vboxadd.service" processes.
Kriton, I have also tried different versions of the additions and have tried to contact the VBox mailing list. No luck yet. Sigh... George...
(In reply to Kriton Kyrimis from comment #1) > I've had trouble installing the guest additions, too, also getting this > message. > > From what I've seen, when systemctl is asked to start the vbox services, it > keeps spawning processes: there is, e.g., one "systemctl enable vboxadd" > process, followed by an increasing number of "systemctl enable > vboxadd.service" processes. THis is a completely different problem and should be fixed with newest chkconfig. For the original issue we probably need https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/8046c4576a68977a1089d2585866bfab8152661b
And that patch is already in f23, so this should be resolved. Please reopen the bug if you are still able to reproduce it.
Hi, I installed this yesterday and from what I can see, this problem is gone now... There does appear to be a problem with DKMS and this "product" though. When I rebuild the kernel module the version for "With KCMS" fails but the NON-KCMS succeeds. George... Here's where I got this update: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.6/