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title="NEW --- - systemd-208-10: Hangs if a partition reference in fstab has been formatted"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74724">74724</a>
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>systemd-208-10: Hangs if a partition reference in fstab has been formatted
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>Richard.Holt@gmail.com
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86 (IA32)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<th>Product</th>
<td>systemd
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<pre>A working Manjaro-0.8.9, distro A, with systemd-280-10, hangs while booting,
and goes into "Welcome to Emergency mode!" but will not allow any corrections,
only Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
Caused, repeatably, by installing distro B on to a partition which is already
listed in the fstab of distro A. The new UUID apparently causes systemd to
choke.
Remember how with SysV, when you installed a new distro and then booted your
old distro, you used to see:
. . . You are about to enter maintenance mode,
. . . (Press Control-d to continue):
and then, as root, you would have to update fstab in your old distro with the
UUID & mountpoint of the new one?
Well, it doesn't/ didn't work that way for me.
The solutions I've found are these:
1. Always keep a SysV distro, like Debian installed, to allow getting something
to boot.
2. Boot into the new install and modify/correct the new UUID for the old distro
A.
Hopefully, this is already being addressed.
Thanks for your time.</pre>
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