Since systemd 232 landed in Rawhide, udev and journald both fail to start during boot. This is obviously critical, boot never proceeds - it just loops forever, trying and failing to start both services for 90 seconds at a time. This affects (AFAICT) all i686 images, 100% of the time; every attempt to boot any of the Rawhide i686 images built since 20170107.n.1 (the compose where systemd 232 landed) fails. If I run with all the suggested debugging tricks from https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/ - systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=console systemd.journald.forward_to_console=1 console=ttyS0,38400 - and observe the serial console, I see a bunch of these errors: [ 8.295846] systemd-udevd[533]: error getting socket: Protocol not supported I'll attach the entire output after leaving it running for a few minutes. You can always find images for testing from the nightlies page here: https://www.happyassassin.net/nightlies.html just grab any of the 'Last built' i386 (i686) images and try to boot it. Live or installer image, doesn't matter.
Looks like this is: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4575 via Arch (thanks, Arch): https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51693 And this should fix it: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/469830d1426a91e0897c321fdc8ee428f0a750c1 I'll throw that at the Rawhide package and see how it goes.
Unfortunately that patch doesn't backport cleanly to v232, and the adjustments necessary aren't trivial, there are cases where the patch touches code that was changed substantially in other ways between v232 and the patch's changes, so I'm not really comfortable with adapting the backport. I'll leave this to the systemd maintainers to decide what the best approach is, but please, it would be nice to have this fixed ASAP. Even though i686 is not a 'primary arch' any more, breaking it entirely is not great.
The patches are in rawhide with systemd-232-11.fc26, please test.
*** Bug 1416198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yes this boots as expected. Thank you.