[systemd-devel] After upgrading glibc: Received environment initctl request

[Marti Raudsepp]

Dear list,

I'm using systemd 35 on Arch Linux testing. Recently I had an upgrade
for the glibc package and following that, I couldn't use sysvinit's
/sbin/reboot -- the command would broadcast its message, wait for a
few seconds and then quit. 'systemctl reboot' still works as supposed.

This is what I get in syslog after upgrading glibc:
Sep  9 13:50:13 arch systemd[1]: Reexecuting.
Sep  9 13:50:13 arch systemd[1]: systemd 35 running in system mode.
(+PAM -LIBWRAP -AUDIT -SELINUX +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP; arch)

And when I issue /sbin/reboot:
Sep  9 13:50:16 arch shutdown[392]: shutting down for system reboot
Sep  9 13:50:16 arch systemd-initctl[387]: Received environment
initctl request. This is not implemented in systemd.

Tom Gundersen on #systemd reduced the problem down to this: "telinit u
&& reboot"
When I run the above, I get into the same state that /sbin/reboot
doesn't function.

/sbin/reboot is owned by sysvinit 2.88-3

It seems that another Arch Linux users has also experienced this
problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=938398#p938398

Regards,
Marti