Control: tags -1 help On 2014-12-17 20:37, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: normal > Tags: jessie > > (X-CC to systemd maintainers for input) > > The release notes have a "Prepare for recovery"[1] and "Things > to do before rebooting" section[2]. They currently does not cover any > systemd related preparation. > > I believe we should consider covering some/all of: > > * My system does not boot after upgrading to systemd. How do I figure out > what the problem is and how do I get a shell/some method to fix it? >
This seems to have partly forked into #774233, so please follow up with relevant information to that. > * Is there someone I can do to check for issues after upgrading but before > rebooting? Like do we have a tool to report: > - There are cycles in your init configuration between the following > services / init.d scripts. > - You have an old init.d script laying around that is likely to break > stuff because of reason X > - etc. > Still hoping for more information here. I would strongly prefer that we could have users test their box before hitting reboot. > > So far, I got following for recovery: > > * (When boot fails) Reboot and alter kernel command line to include > "systemd.unit=rescue.target". Covered in #774233 > * (Before reboot or from rescue shell) Run systemctl enable > debug-shell.service to get a (passwordless) root shell on TTY9 > "just in case" Should possibly be included in #774233 as well, but I forgot it in my draft. > * (Before upgrade) Back up /sbin/init and use it on the kernel cmd line > as last resort [Presumably Jessie-only] > As Andrei pointed out, the sysvinit package handles this. > > On the "before reboot", I got nothing so far. I am hoping you do. > > If you got known issues to be documented in the Release Notes (or > other suggestions for improvements), please file additional bugs. > We got some items covered in [3], but I would not be surprised if I > had missed one or some of the existing ones could be improved. > > Thanks, > ~Niels > > [...] Such extra bugs are still welcome! ~Niels _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
