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Kernel panic after system reconfiguration

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Message #25 received at 22548 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Albin <albin <at> fripost.org>, Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>,
 22548 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22548: Kernel panic after system reconfiguration
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:50:29 +0100

Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> And as reported by several people on #guix (I count at least 4 including
> me and Mark) a wrong swap device leads to a kernel panic if shepherd is
> used as the init system.
>
> Until I realized that it was a wrong swap, I made bisecting on shepherd
> to find out which commit introduced this bug.  It gave me commit
> 852341e¹: when I reconfigured my system (with a wrong swap) using
> shepherd on this commit, I had a kernel panic, while with shepherd on
> the previous commit the system booted successfully.
>
> ¹ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/commit/?id=852341ed0c08941cbdd022135f8bef7be2d7ec54

Ooooh, it took me a while but I see how this happens.  This is because
we start services directly from the config file, and anything that goes
wrong there is uncaught, which leads to this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Service udev has been started.
srfi-34(#<condition &action-runtime-error [service: #<<service> 184b150> action: start key: system-error arguments: ("swapon" "~S: ~A" ("/dev/disk/foobar" "No such file or directory") (2))] 1ea24c0>)
[    6.856167] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
[    6.856167] 
[    6.856869] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: shepherd Not tainted 4.4.1-gnu #1
[    6.857319] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.8.2-0-g33fbe13 by qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Ludo’.

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