Package: dkms Version: 3.2.0-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? After using a fresh Debian image with cloud-init[1] and installing dkms on it, I rebooted the system. After that, I looked through journal and noticed that dependency cycles got introduced: $ journalctl -o cat -b 0 [...] sysinit.target: Found ordering cycle on cloud-init-network.service/start sysinit.target: Found dependency on systemd-networkd-wait-online.service/start sysinit.target: Found dependency on systemd-networkd.service/start sysinit.target: Found dependency on network-pre.target/start sysinit.target: Found dependency on dkms.service/start sysinit.target: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start sysinit.target: Job cloud-init-network.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with sysinit.target/start [...] One thing of note for reproduction here is that the cloud-init datasource needs to still be available after reboot so that the service actually runs. I'm only mentioning this because I initially wanted to reproduce this with virt-install but that detaches the data source after reboot. Manually generating ISO disk and attaching it as described here should work for reproducing: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/launch_qemu.html [1] Generic cloud variant from https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/trixie/daily/20250603-2132/ * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I am not sure whether this is the correct action to solve this but one can add DefaultDependencies=no to [Unit] section of /usr/lib/systemd/system/dkms.service. Service file in the upstream doesn't have it and the service existed for a while, it has only recently been introduced to Debian based distributions though[2]. [2] https://github.com/dell/dkms/commit/b39d8060ab548868517c2ae2f88ed549281616c3 * What was the outcome of this action? Adding DefaultDependencies=no to [Unit] section of /usr/lib/systemd/system/dkms.service does seem to solve the dependency cycle at least. It is not entirely clear to me whether this is the right place to solve it, perhaps this should belong to a bug tracker of the cloud-init package instead. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected installation of dkms package to not introduce service dependency cycle in the system. Kind regards, Jakub Kuczys -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dkms depends on: ii build-essential 12.12 ii dpkg-dev 1.22.19 ii kmod 34.2-2 ii lsb-release 12.1-1 ii make 4.4.1-2 ii patch 2.8-1 Versions of packages dkms recommends: ii fakeroot 1.37.1.1-1 ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:14.2.0-1 ii gcc-14 [c-compiler] 14.2.0-19 ii sudo 1.9.16p2-2 Versions of packages dkms suggests: ii e2fsprogs 1.47.2-1+b1 pn menu <none> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Technology Poland sp. z o.o. ul. Slowackiego 173 | 80-298 Gdansk | Sad Rejonowy Gdansk Polnoc | VII Wydzial Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sadowego - KRS 101882 | NIP 957-07-52-316 | Kapital zakladowy 200.000 PLN. Spolka oswiadcza, ze posiada status duzego przedsiebiorcy w rozumieniu ustawy z dnia 8 marca 2013 r. o przeciwdzialaniu nadmiernym opoznieniom w transakcjach handlowych. Ta wiadomosc wraz z zalacznikami jest przeznaczona dla okreslonego adresata i moze zawierac informacje poufne. W razie przypadkowego otrzymania tej wiadomosci, prosimy o powiadomienie nadawcy oraz trwale jej usuniecie; jakiekolwiek przegladanie lub rozpowszechnianie jest zabronione. This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies; any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited.
