Bug 859874 - dracut goes into an infinite loop
Summary: dracut goes into an infinite loop
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: systemd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-24 09:09 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2012-10-03 10:38 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-10-03 10:38:17 UTC
Type: Bug
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2012-09-24 09:09 UTC, Richard W.M. Jones
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-09-24 09:09:33 UTC
Created attachment 616435 [details]
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Description of problem:

NB: This is RAWHIDE not Fedora 18.

dracut goes into an infinite loop during boot.  I updated
this machine to the latest version of Rawhide over the
weekend.

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

dracut 023-2.fc18
systemd 188-3.fc19
kernel 3.6.0-0.rc6.git0.2.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:

Happens when you try to boot.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update a VM to the latest Rawhide on x86_64
2. Reboot it

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2012-09-24 13:55:36 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> systemd 188-3.fc19

This is the culprit... "update" systemd and regenerate the initramfs

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-09-24 13:57:50 UTC
There's no systemd in Rawhide to update to:

$ rpm -q systemd
systemd-188-3.fc19.x86_64
$ sudo yum update systemd
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto
No Packages marked for Update

cf http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=10477

Comment 3 Andre Robatino 2012-09-24 20:51:19 UTC
I saw this a few days ago attempting to use any rc4, rc5, or rc6 kernel in Rawhide. But rc3 or below worked for me.

Comment 4 Andre Robatino 2012-09-26 03:43:58 UTC
The rc7 non-debug kernel works for me, as does rc3. The rc4, rc5, and rc6 non-debug kernels, and kernel 3.6.0-0.rc6.git0.2.fc18.x86_64, go into the infinite loop.

dracut-023-39.git20120910.fc18.x86_64
systemd-188-3.fc18.x86_64

Comment 5 Andre Robatino 2012-09-26 03:45:26 UTC
Should also mention that all the non-debug kernels work fine on F18. The infinite loop only appears in Rawhide, and only with rc4, rc5, and rc6.

Comment 6 Andre Robatino 2012-10-03 09:10:52 UTC
I'm not seeing this with any of the more recent kernels, either. This can probably be closed unless someone else is still seeing it.


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