[systemd-devel] 4 failing tests

[Timothy Pepper]

On Fri 30 Nov at 13:58:43 +0100 kay at vrfy.org said:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> <artagnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> >> <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It'll be created by systemd during init if not present. So we _do_ a
> >>> kind of around.
> >
> > Where is the creation code?  The systemd-machine-id-setup binary does
> > _not_ create it, and my patch proposes to fix that.
> 
> We overmount an empty file if needed. We do not want to create
> anything if we do not know what to do, we should just fail with an
> explaination, not mess around in the system!

It would be nice to at least do an overmount in cases where something
sane for a default could be created at boot.  For kicks I removed
/etc/machine-id on a test machine and the machine no longer booted,
instead just spewing to the console repeatedly:
	systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.


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Tim Pepper <timothy.c.pepper at linux.intel.com>
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