625462 – sys-apps/systemd-234: symlink does not work with dracut

Bug 625462 - sys-apps/systemd-234: symlink does not work with dracut

Summary: sys-apps/systemd-234: symlink does not work with dracut

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo systemd Team

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Reported:	2017-07-17 18:59 UTC by Maciej Piechotka
Modified:	2017-07-18 17:01 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Maciej Piechotka 2017-07-17 18:59:24 UTC

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd should be relative symlink as it does not work in dracut where / is mounted in /sysroot before pivot root.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-07-17 19:06:43 UTC

Thanks for reporting this.

The news item does mention that you should rebuild your initramfs after upgrading -- that should cause /lib/systemd/systemd to be called directly.

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-07-17 19:08:38 UTC

I guess it really has more to do with your kernel command line (init=/lib/systemd/systemd). Anyway, I'll look into using a relative symlink again.

Comment 3 Maciej Piechotka 2017-07-17 19:14:28 UTC

Yes. Sorry for not being clear enough - I meant init= (removing /usr fixed the problem).

Comment 4 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-07-18 03:35:26 UTC

I just tested with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd, and did not have any trouble booting with a dracut-045 initramfs.

Please provide more exact instructions to reproduce the problem.

Comment 5 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-07-18 17:01:29 UTC

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fe9f13cf6189140f1e89481cb87a0f544a50657c

commit fe9f13cf6189140f1e89481cb87a0f544a50657c
Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Date:   Tue Jul 18 12:56:24 2017 -0400

    sys-apps/systemd: use relative symlinks for systemd and systemd-shutdown

    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/625462
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6_p16, Repoman-2.3.2_p84

 sys-apps/systemd/{systemd-234-r1.ebuild => systemd-234-r2.ebuild} | 4 ++--
 sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild                              | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)