Re: [gentoo-user] PSA: openrc-0.41 system borkage & ro root fs on next boot

[Daniel Pielmeier]

Daniel Pielmeier schrieb am 23.02.19 um 16:37:
> Daniel Pielmeier schrieb am 23.02.19 um 16:25:
>> Holger Hoffstätte schrieb am 23.02.19 um 15:15:
>>>
>>> Last night openrc was updated to ~0.41, supposedly fixing [1].
>>>
>>> Unfortunately it seems it had the opposite effect and made things worse
>>> compared to the previous 0.42.3 - the deptree is broken, rc-status
>>> remains confused and a reboot results in a read-only root fs because
>>> (I think) the runlevels are all mixed up, esp. /etc/runlevels/boot.
>>>
>>> Restoring /etc/runlevels from backup & downgrade to 0.40.3 fixed it.
>>>
>>> If someone can reproduce this in a VM (I cannot do so right now) please
>>> file a bug with more information.
>>>
>>> hth,
>>> Holger
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/659906
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Same here! However I am still on sys-apps/openrc-0.38.3-r1. I think the
>> culprit is sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-33 which got an upgrade from version
>> 32 on the day before this started happening!
>>
>
> What's to add is that restarting from the semi booted state always
> resulted in the same partial boot with the rootfs mounted read-only.
> After fixing this by manually starting all services everything was fine
> after the next boot. Today when booting again the same happened. I am
> writing this now from the manually started system. I will try restarting
> over and check if I can reproduce this issue reliable.
>

Rebooting a few times always resulted in a failed boot! Maybe the other
time I was just lucky. Downgrading to sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-32 seems
to fix the issue. I opened bug 678638 [1] about this issue.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/678638

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Regards
Daniel