[Bug 926331] New: / being remounted ro prevents booting
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http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=926331 Bug ID: 926331 Summary: / being remounted ro prevents booting Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: 13.2 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: oneukum@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- If an error on the root file system causes the fs to be mountable only ro, systemd will refuse to boot the system. Thus fixing the problem requires a rescue disk. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Oliver Neukum
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Thomas Blume
I guess you dont get the emergency shell from the initrd because it is already past that point?
Hm, if the mount service that applies the fstab options (inclusive rw) for /sysroot fails, the boot process stops in the initrd and you should get the emergency shell.
I remember the old "single" mode with sulogin coming up in the old days in such a case.
This is equivalent to the rescue.target in systemd. But this is after switch root and system root is already rw at this stage. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Thomas Blume
If an error on the root file system causes the fs to be mountable only ro, systemd will refuse to boot the system. Thus fixing the problem requires a rescue disk.
Are you getting an emergency shell when the problem happens? If so, please boot with the boot parameters: debug rd.debug and attach /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt when the boot stops. Is is possible that the behaviour is a side effect of bug 912734. You can try installing the dracut update from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tsaupe:/branches:/openSUSE:/... and checking wheter the behaviour changes after updating the initrd. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #4 from Thomas Blume
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--- Comment #5 from Oliver Neukum
Are you getting an emergency shell when the problem happens? If so, please boot with the boot parameters:
I am not getting an emergency shell. And for obvious reasons I need to set up a full test system for reproducing. How should I test? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #6 from Thomas Blume
I am not getting an emergency shell. And for obvious reasons I need to set up a full test system for reproducing. How should I test?
This shouldn't happen, indeed. I will try to reproduce the problem. Please provide details of your installation. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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