[systemd-devel] initrd mount inactive

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 27.04.15 11:47, Aaron_Wright at selinc.com (Aaron_Wright at selinc.com) wrote:

> I applied commit 628c89cc68ab96fce2de7ebba5933725d147aecc - core: rework 
> device state logic, but now I'm left with a random chance to boot or not.
> 
> Some boots it comes up with "/var mounted" and lots of nice colored "[ OK 
> ]"s.
> 
> Some boots it comes up with "Unit var.mount is bound to inactive unit 
> /dev/mapper/<name>. Stopping, too." and no colored "[ OK ]"s and about 
> half the logs; only the "systemd[1]" messages, and it just hangs at some 
> point; it never reaches the default target.
> 
> I create /dev/mapper/<name> in initrd with cryptsetup, and then mount it 
> to /newroot/var before switching root to /newroot and running systemd. I 
> don't use systemd in initrd.

Make sure to apply 496068a8288084ab3ecf8b179a8403ecff1a6be8
and f62009410a72f5a89bfb8fdd7e48d9d472a6887b.

Also make sure you have LVM/DM compiled with proper udev support.
 

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat