[Mageia-dev] Failed to boot after /usr move

Tue Jul 24 10:28:38 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 24/07/12 08:06 did gyre and gimble:
+> * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 23/07/12 22:27 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> So I did the switch on my latptop, everything was fine until I reboot...
+>>>
+>>> The problem is again my encrypted /home.
+>>
+>> What happens? Does the system boot OK generally but fail to allow you to
+>> login? Anything in logs? "systemctl status /home/$USER" tell you
+>> anything (assuming it's a regular mount, but I guess this is
+>> unlikely...) Anything else we can use to debug with?
+> 
+> It don't ask the passphrase during boot, systemctl status /home show
+> nothing but systemctl status cryptsetup report only "No such file or
+> directory".
+
+Do you mean "systemctl status cryptsetup.target"? If so I get the same
+results here:
+
+[colin at jimmy spec-helper]$ systemctl status cryptsetup.target
+cryptsetup.target
+	  Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
+	  Active: inactive (dead)
+
+
+
+This generally happens when a unit refers to a target as a dep but the
+target itself is not defined.
+
+This target itself does seem to be AWOL in the systemd-units package.
+Seems like an unintended (or at least unannounced) change in systemd
+187, so separate from the whole usr move thing, just related to a new
+systemd version.
+
+I'll investigate ASAP.
+
+>>
+>>> BTW: /var/run and /var/lock were not migrated and I had to do it by
+>>> hand.
+>>
+>> This happens if /var is on a separate partition. Is this the case with
+>> you? I'll have to think about how to handle that more gracefully.
+> 
+> It's the case.
+
+
+Cool. Will have to work that one out then :s
+
+Col
+
+
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