<div dir="auto">Thanks Adrian that seems to be it. I hacked my hook (Wow! What a phrase.) to create /tmp on the zram device and the boot completes.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">However, I now briefly see several "Failed to start MD array monitor" messages. So far that doesn't seem to affect anything.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun., Apr. 30, 2023, 11:37 a.m. Adrian Vovk, <<a href="mailto:adrianvovk@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">adrianvovk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Without the debug logs this is just a blind guess, but could it possibly be this issue: <a href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/27436" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/27436</a>?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Adrian </div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 19:20 Caeri Tech <<a href="mailto:caeritech@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">caeritech@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>So my next question is under what circumstances does systemd issue this message?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue., Apr. 25, 2023, 9:18 a.m. Caeri Tech, <<a href="mailto:caeritech@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">caeritech@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Interesting. If I downgrade systemd and systemd-libs from 253 to 252 it works as before.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is there perhaps a dependency that I'm now required to include in the initramfs config?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue., Apr. 25, 2023, 4:54 a.m. Lennart Poettering, <<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">lennart@poettering.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Di, 25.04.23 01:43, Caeri Tech (<a href="mailto:caeritech@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">caeritech@gmail.com</a>) wrote:<br>
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> *:: running cleanup hook [udev]*<br>
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This ouput doesn't look as if systemd was actually involved?<br>
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> But it still freezes execution.<br>
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> The rescue and emergency shells do not start if I activate the hook and<br>
> again it freezes. The shells do start, however, when the hook is not<br>
> activated.<br>
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Anyway, without debug logs as suggested in my earlier mail this is<br>
really hard to debug. Enable debug logging.<br>
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Lennart<br>
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Lennart Poettering, Berlin<br>
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