Description of problem: If a hard requirement of initrd.target fails, systemd just keeps looping in the initrd instead of going to the emergency console. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-239-12.git8bca462.fc29.x86_64 Note that this doesn't reproduce on f30 (systemd-241-4.gitcbf14c9.fc30.x86_64). How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a new e.g. "80foobar" dracut module with: # foobar.service [Unit] Description=Foobar DefaultDependencies=false Before=initrd.target ConditionKernelCommandLine=foobar.fail=1 [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/bin/false # module-setup.sh #!/bin/bash install() { inst_multiple true false inst_simple "$moddir/foobar.service" \ "$systemdsystemunitdir/foobar.service" mkdir -p "$initdir/$systemdsystemunitdir/initrd.target.requires" ln -s "../foobar.service" "$initdir/$systemdsystemunitdir/initrd.target.requires/foobar.service" } 2. dracut -f -a foobar 3. Boot system with foobar.fail=1 Actual results: The foobar.service fails, but systemd keeps switching between starting emergency.target and initrd-cleanup.service and never actually brings up the emergency prompt. Expected results: systemd goes to emergency.target and stays there. Additional info: Interestingly, adding `systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=console` will eventually stop the loop, so I suspect it's sensitive to timing/ordering of jobs. From analyzing those logs in the loops before it stops, ISTM like the issue is that `emergency.target` is being overriden by the `systemctl isolate initrd-switch-root.target` call from `initrd-cleanup.service`: ``` [FAILED] Failed to start Foobar. See 'systemctl status foobar.service' for details. initrd.target: Job initrd.target/start finished, result=dependency [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Initrd Default Target. initrd.target: Job initrd.target/start failed with result 'dependency'. initrd.target: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies. emergency.target: Trying to enqueue job emergency.target/start/replace-irreversibly emergency.target: Installed new job emergency.target/start as 50 emergency.service: Installed new job emergency.service/start as 51 emergency.target: Enqueued job emergency.target/start as 50 foobar.service: Unit entered failed state. ... emergency.service: Passing 0 fds to service emergency.service: About to execute: /bin/dracut-emergency emergency.service: Forked /bin/dracut-emergency as 225 emergency.service: Changed dead -> running emergency.service: Job emergency.service/start finished, result=done [ OK ] Started Emergency Shell. emergency.target changed dead -> active emergency.target: Job emergency.target/start finished, result=done ... emergency.service: Changed dead -> running ... emergency.target changed dead -> active ``` But then a bit after: ``` initrd-cleanup.service: ConditionPathExists=/etc/initrd-release succeeded. initrd-cleanup.service: Passing 0 fds to service initrd-cleanup.service: About to execute: /usr/bin/systemctl --no-block isolate initrd-switch-root.target initrd-cleanup.service: Forked /usr/bin/systemctl as 288 initrd-cleanup.service: Changed dead -> start Starting Cleaning Up and Shutting Down Daemons... initrd-cleanup.service: Executing: /usr/bin/systemctl --no-block isolate initrd-switch-root.target initrd-switch-root.target: Trying to enqueue job initrd-switch-root.target/start/isolate initrd-switch-root.target: Installed new job initrd-switch-root.target/start as 91 emergency.service: Installed new job emergency.service/stop as 123 emergency.target: Installed new job emergency.target/stop as 124 ... emergency.target changed active -> dead emergency.target: Job emergency.target/stop finished, result=done [ OK ] Stopped target Emergency Mode. ``` Note: we've been working around this for now by adding `OnFailure=emergency.target` & `OnFailureJobMode=isolate` to our units. I suspect switching `initrd.target` to `OnFailureJobMode=isolate` as well would achieve the same thing, though I haven't tested it.
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