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Bug 1369245

Summary: systemd hangs on reboot VMware
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Matt Mezynski <mmezynsk>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.1CC: bblaskov, jsynacek, jwright, mmezynsk, systemd-maint-list
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Last Closed: 2017-05-05 13:03:48 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1298243, 1420851    
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sosreport of effected system none

Description Matt Mezynski 2016-08-22 19:54:10 UTC
Created attachment 1193067 [details]
sosreport of effected system

Description of problem:
Just using the standard reboot command causes the reboot to hang, however running these commands:

sync && reboot -f
sync && poweroff -f

Allows the reboot to complete.  This suggests it is a failing in systemd


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
When customer initiates a reboot either from VMware (current tools are installed and hypervisor is ESXi 6.0) or from the OS (systemctl reboot) the VM goes to a black screen with a single gray cursor and just blinks forever, the system will never actually reboot.  This problem happens randomly and affect all of customers RHEL 7.1 systems, customer states 2-3 reboots out of 10 will work, the others hang forever.


Steps to Reproduce:
try to reboot normally

Actual results:
system hangs at blinking curser

Expected results:
system shuts down

Additional info:

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-08-30 11:27:05 UTC
If you enable debug shell, are you able to access it? 

https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/ Section early debug shell

Comment 4 Jan Synacek 2017-05-05 13:03:48 UTC
Closing for the lack of input.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 03:29:59 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days