[OE-core] systemd boot hang

[Joel A Fernandes]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Jason Kridner <jkridner at beagleboard.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just posted this on the systemd mailing list.
>
> Are these the right lists on this thread?  Just not sure if some folks
> on the CC might consider this too off-topic.
>
>>
>> It seems that I didn't go through enough testing on the
>> systemd-gnome-image built by OE. The success I reported with boot SD
>> card instead of over NFS was just a got-lucky case. So SD Card and NFS
>> alike, the boot still hangs.
>>
>> Koen and others, could you try my image?
>> http://www.beagleboard.org/~joelf/images/Angstrom-systemd-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2011.08-core-beagleboard.rootfs.tar.bz2
>
> Can you provide an SD card image as well?  Running mkcard.txt or
> linaro-create-image is often error prone and time consuming.

Could you untar the file I uploaded into the FS partition?
You could use the image from here:
http://circuitco.com/support/files/BeagleboardxM/xMc_4_25.zip

>>> [..]
>>> Starting Login Service...
>>> Starting Permit User Sessions...
>>> Started Permit User Sessions.
>>> Starting ntpd: Started Console System Startup Logging.
>>> Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
>>> Starting internet superserver: xinetd.
>>> [    5.773284] ntpd[137]: ntpd 4.2.6p3 at 1.2290 Fri Jul 29 17:35:18 UTC 2011 (2)
>>> done
>>> [    5.809906] ntpd[154]: proto: precision = 30.517 usec
>>> [    5.829437] ntpd[154]: Listen and drop on 0 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0 UDP 123
>>> [    5.849182] xinetd[156]: 156 {init_services} no services. Exiting...
>>> [    5.864044] ntpd[154]: Listen and drop on 1 v6wildcard :: UDP 123
>>> [    5.882141] ntpd[154]: Listen normally on 2 lo 127.0.0.1 UDP 123
>>> [    5.906188] ntpd[154]: Listen normally on 3 lo ::1 UDP 123
>>> [    5.935424] ntpd[154]: peers refreshed
>>> [    5.939361] ntpd[154]: Deferring DNS for pool.ntp.org 1
>>> [    6.385498] twl_rtc twl_rtc: rtc core: registered twl_rtc as rtc0
>>> [    7.948211] ntpd_intres[162]: host name not found: pool.ntp.org
>
> How long did you wait here for a timeout of some kind?  What happens
> here different when it works?  Did you try SysRq?  What is the state
> of the board and native console?

I waited for 15 minutes. The MMC card LED doesn't glow indicating no
activity. The console has hung with the messages above. I tried sysrq
but there is no response. CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y in my .config

Thanks,
Joel