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DISCUSSION Jack Mitchell 2 participants 5 messages Apr 22, 2013

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Booting master today I had a systemd fault. Enabling debugging I captured the (attached) output. The gist of which is:

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Spawned /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-system-update-generator as 81

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Received SIGCHLD from PID 81 (n/a).
Got SIGCHLD for process 90 (systemd-sysctl)
Child 90 died (code=exi

So, looking into systemd-system-update-generator, it seems this is what takes card of the post install scripts, which I know we're having problems with.

Is there anything I can do to help?

Cheers,

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Quoted 6 lines · Jack Mitchell

Booting master today I had a systemd fault. Enabling debugging I captured the (attached) output. The gist of which is:

So, looking into systemd-system-update-generator, it seems this is what takes card of the post install scripts, which I know we're having problems with.

Not quite - the system update generator would be used if we were using systemd's native systemd update protocol, which we're not. This generator shouldn't do anything unless you've got a symlink /system-update (see
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates for the details).

Ross

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Quoted 6 lines · Jack Mitchell

Booting master today I had a systemd fault. Enabling debugging I captured the (attached) output. The gist of which is:

So, looking into systemd-system-update-generator, it seems this is what takes card of the post install scripts, which I know we're having problems with.

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Not quite - the system update generator would be used if we were using systemd's native systemd update protocol, which we're not. This generator shouldn't do anything unless you've got a symlink /system-update (see
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates for the details).

Ross

Ah, ok then, I don't have a /system-update. So square one, any ideas why this would have suddenly flagged up? I was building and booting fine on Wed/Thurs. That was the only useful bit of the debug log I could determine...

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Ah, ok then, I don't have a /system-update. So square one, any ideas why this would have suddenly flagged up? I was building and booting fine on Wed/Thurs. That was the only useful bit of the debug log I could determine...

That log isn't massively useful, can you explain exactly what isn't working?

Ross

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Quoted 4 lines · Jack Mitchell

Ah, ok then, I don't have a /system-update. So square one, any ideas why this would have suddenly flagged up? I was building and booting fine on Wed/Thurs. That was the only useful bit of the debug log I could determine...

That log isn't massively useful, can you explain exactly what isn't working?

Ross

Tell me about it, I boot, systemd crashes, I get a capture of the serial log up to where it crashed.

I've managed to get a tiny little bit more output that may shed a little bit more information.

_*scrap that*_

My power supply was crapping out on me, so when the going got a bit tough the cpu required some more amps and bam, dead system.

Sorry for the noise. Should have checked that earlier.

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