Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] systemd: drop libmount dependency and add blkid and fdisk PACKAGECONFIGs

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Thu Jul 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM CEST, Hiago De Franco via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Hiago De Franco <hiago.franco@toradex.com>
>
> The libmount dependency in systemd was made optional upstream [2]. This
> series backports that change, allowing us to drop util-linux as a build
> dependency for systemd. This resolves a circular dependency between
> util-linux and systemd when systemd PACKAGECONFIG is enabled in
> util-linux. Without this fix, each recipe depends on the other,
> triggering the circular dependency error.
>
> Note that this alone does not fully resolve the circular dependency
> on util-linux-fstrim/uuid. There is another one:
>
> glib-2.0 -> util-linux -> systemd -> shared-mime-info -> glib-2.0
>
> But the libmount PACKAGECONFIG can be removed from glib-2.0 to break its
> dependency on util-linux.
>
> In addition, according to systemd's README [2], the dependencies on
> libblkid and libfdisk from util-linux are optional, so add them as new
> PACKAGECONFIGs.
>
> [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d1ee3889cf8e8a9edc82e41d306155fb4c531c8f
> [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/README#L216
>
> Hiago De Franco (2):
>   systemd: drop build dependency on util-linux
>   systemd: add libblkid and libfdisk PACKAGECONFIG options
>
>  .../0001-meson-Add-libmount-feature.patch     | 58 +++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_257.6.bb    |  9 ++-
>  2 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/0001-meson-Add-libmount-feature.patch

Hi Hiago,

Thanks for your patches.

I suspect this series is responsible from a test failure:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuarm-alt/build/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/__init__.py", line 35, in wrapped_f
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuarm-alt/build/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py", line 100, in test_systemd_failed
    output += self.systemctl('status --full --failed')
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuarm-alt/build/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py", line 26, in systemctl
    self.assertEqual(status, expected, message)
AssertionError: 3 != 0 : SYSTEMD_BUS_TIMEOUT=240s systemctl status --full --failed
× systemd-boot-update.service - Automatic Boot Loader Update
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-boot-update.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-07-17 09:02:59 UTC; 25min ago
 Invocation: a44df1a151da4bbfa387c056d59eb001
       Docs: man:bootctl(1)
   Main PID: 189 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
   Mem peak: 828K
        CPU: 58ms
...
RESULTS - systemd.SystemdBasicTests.test_systemd_failed: FAILED (9.36s)

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/74/builds/2034
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/9/builds/2030
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/95/builds/2018
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/20/builds/2017

Can you have a look at this failure please?

-- 
Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com