Re: [PATCH OSSTEST 0/5] Debian Jessie patches

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 19:04 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 06:56:23PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > I worked a little bit on upgrading Osstest to Jessie a few months ago but
> > dropped the ball. Here are the patches I wrote.
> > 
> > With these patches I can run build jobs (Xen and kernel) with Jessie. Running
> > test jobs requires more work because now Jessie uses systemd a lot of things
> > have changed.
> 
> Actually the problems I see might not be systemd related. The problem is
> that Osstest cannot setup test host. Last time I didn't look into
> details.

I had some issues too, to do with /boot and /boot/efi not being mounted
on boot which I couldn't figure out. It was complaining that the magic
dev...by-uuid event hadn't triggered despite the fact I could see the
devices and mount them and they were tagged systemd in the udev db.

Eventually I gave in and went with this patch, essentially deferring the
problem to Stretch...

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commit 1bc2eff194a4c02071b75cc671058977d23d60d8
Author: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 9 11:23:25 2015 +0100

    Force sysvinit with Jessie.
    
    systemd seems to have some issues with mounting /boot and /boot/efi.
    See bug references in the comments.
    
    (I suspect there ust be more to it, but I can't figure out what...)
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

diff --git a/Osstest/Debian.pm b/Osstest/Debian.pm
index aa3648b..8458335 100644
--- a/Osstest/Debian.pm
+++ b/Osstest/Debian.pm
@@ -982,6 +982,15 @@ in-target update-initramfs -u -k all
 END
     }
 
+    # With systemd it seems that /boot and/or /boot/efi occasionally
+    # do not boot, Debian bugs #718190 and #719738 seem to be relevant.
+    # For the time being force sysvinit with Jessie.
+    if ( $ho->{Suite} =~ /jessie/ ) {
+	preseed_hook_command($ho, 'late_command', $sfx, <<END)
+in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core
+END
+    }
+
     my @extra_packages = ();
     push(@extra_packages, "u-boot-tools") if $ho->{Flags}{'need-uboot-bootscr'};
 



> 
> Wei.