On Mon, 2020-01-13 at 14:00 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 2020-01-13 at 03:54 +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 09:48:23AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > > I did try this patch and I was trying to work out why it didn't > > > work. But thought I'd let you know what I saw. > > > > > > Applying it to current Linus tree systemd stops at switch root. > > > > > > Not sure what causes that, I couldn't see any reason for it. > > > > Wait a minute... So you are seeing problems early in the boot, > > before any autofs ioctls might come into play? > > I did, then I checked it booted without the patch, then tried > building from scratch with the patch twice and same thing > happened each time. > > Looked like this, such as it is: > [ OK ] Reached target Switch Root. > [ OK ] Started Plymouth switch root service. > Starting Switch Root... > > I don't have any evidence but thought it might be this: > https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/blob/master/sys-utils/switch_root.c Oh wait, for systemd I was actually looking at: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/shared/switch-root.c > > Mind you, that's not the actual systemd repo. either I probably > need to look a lot deeper (and at the actual systemd repo) to > work out what's actually being called. > > > Sigh... Guess I'll have to dig that Fedora KVM image out and > > try to see what it's about... ;-/ Here comes a couple of hours > > of build...