[systemd-devel] kexec returns error code 1

[Aaron_Wright at selinc.com]

Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote on 06/18/2015 11:10:49 
AM:
> On Fri, 22.05.15 15:59, Aaron_Wright at selinc.com 
> (Aaron_Wright at selinc.com) wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get kexec reboots to work on my box with systemd. I can 
get 
> > "kexec -l ..." and "kexec -e" to work when ran straight from the 
command 
> > line, but when I run "kexec -l ..." and "systemctl kexec" I get "kexec 

> > returned error code 1" and it falls back to a full reboot.
> > I've puzzled over this for a while, but I can't figure out the 
difference 
> > between the two situations that would prevent the later from working. 
> > (error code 1 doesn't tell me much) Ideas?
> 
> Consider placing a script in /usr/lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ that is
> marked executable, that play around with the kexec command line,
> echoing its output to some log file, so that you can look at it after
> reboot. Note though that at that time the fs are already mounted
> read-only, you'd have to remount it rw first, to be able to place that
> log file somwhere.
> 
> Regular logging is unfortunately not available anymore that late,
> because things are already mounted read-only.
> 
> Also see systemd-shutdown(8) for details.

Thanks for checking in on this. Strangely, this cleared up on its own. I'm 
not 100% sure why, but it could be related to improper command line 
arguments to kexec when I was loading the kernel. If it comes up again, 
I'm sure I'll let you know. :)
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