Bug#846256: failure on boot

[Ognyan Kulev]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.154

On a Debian testing inside virt-manager, console-setup always fails on
boot with the following error messages:

Unit console-screen.service could not be found.

● console-setup.service - Set console font and keymap
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/console-setup.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-11-29 11:28:36
EET; 6h ago
Main PID: 428 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

ное 29 11:28:36 miranda systemd[1]: Starting Set console font and keymap...
ное 29 11:28:36 miranda console-setup.sh[428]: /bin/setupcon: 866:
/bin/setupcon: cannot open /tmp/tmpkbd.xTd9cX: No such file
ное 29 11:28:36 miranda systemd[1]: console-setup.service: Main process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
ное 29 11:28:36 miranda systemd[1]: Failed to start Set console font and
keymap.
ное 29 11:28:36 miranda systemd[1]: console-setup.service: Unit entered
failed state.
ное 29 11:28:36 miranda systemd[1]: console-setup.service: Failed with
result 'exit-code'.

Around line 866 is the following code that fails "gzip -9n <$TMPFILE":

if [ "$savekbdfile" ]; then
case "$kernel" in
linux)
tempfile || { echo setupcon: Can not create temporary file
>&2; exit 1; }
{
$installdir/bin/ckbcomp -backspace "$backspace"
$acm_option \
$rules_option -model "$XKBMODEL" \
"$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT" "$XKBOPTIONS" >$TMPFILE \
&& gzip -9n <$TMPFILE >"$savekbdfile"
} || exit 1
;;
freebsd)
$installdir/bin/ckbcomp -freebsd -backspace "$backspace" \
$acm_option $rules_option -model "$XKBMODEL" \
"$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT" "$XKBOPTIONS" >"$savekbdfile" \
|| exit 1
;;
esac
fi

I didn't try to investigate further.

Just starting the service later works but on boot it always fails.

Best regards,
Ognyan

[Arnaud Rebillout]

I also experience this bug.

I got in touch with the debian maintainers for systemd at:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904079

According to the maintainer, the issue should be solved by using the
`After=` directive in the unit file for console-setup.

Regards,
  Arnaud

[Marcel Partap]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.194
Followup-For: Bug #846256

see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1824227

--- console-setup_1.178ubuntu12_all/bin/setupcon 2019-04-10
21:51:56.000000000 +0200
+++ console-setup_1.195_all/bin/setupcon 2020-03-26 14:34:12.000000000
+0100
@@ -60,8 +60,11 @@
trap "exit 2" 1 2 3 13 15
tempfile () {
if \
- TMPFILE=`mktemp /run/tmpkbd.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null` \
- || TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/tmpkbd.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null`
+ TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/tmpkbd.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null` \
+ || TMPFILE=`mktemp /run/tmpkbd.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null` \
+ || TMPFILE=`mktemp /dev/.tmpkbd.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null` \
+ || TMPFILE=`mktemp /lib/init/rw/tmpkbd.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null` \
+ || TMPFILE=`mktemp 2>/dev/null`

but specifying After=systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service is also a good option.
Anything against shipping that?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (510, 'unstable'), (510, 'testing'), (509, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.194
ii debconf 1.5.73
ii keyboard-configuration 1.194
ii xkb-data 2.26-2

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.29-3
ii lsb-base 11.1.0

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.73
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-4

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.57
ii kbd 2.0.4-4
ii keyboard-configuration 1.194

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn console-common <none>
pn console-data <none>
pn console-tools <none>
pn gnome-control-center <none>
ii kbd 2.0.4-4
ii systemd 244.3-1

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:37:02 +0200 "Badics, Alex" <alex....@balabit.com> wrote:
> > 2. If they finish in time, this is ok. Suppose however that
> > systemd-tmpfiles-setup starts before the scripts of console-setup
> > finish their work. (Is this possible?)
> Yes. We have seen this happen. Although it being a race condition,
> it's hard to reproduce, and we've only seen it happen on at least 8
> core servers.

We’re also facing that issue here. It’s not 100 % reproducible, but after installing a custom-built Debian image (with debootstrap), it mostly happens after the first boot in vmware.

Adding the dependency Marc Haber suggested, seems to fix the issue.


Regards,
Bernhard

[Laurence Hurst]

Just a +1 to being affected by this bug, Debian Bullseye (console-setup
package version 1.205) on a Dell XPS laptop (4-core i7).

I've applied Marc's workaround:

# /etc/systemd/system/console-setup.service.d/override.conf
[Unit]
After=systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

and

# /etc/systemd/system/keyboard-setup.serviceoverride.conf
[Unit]
After=systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

(I've not seen it with keyboard-setup, only console-setup, but applied
both based on Marc's recommendation in his post.)

[Jean Honlet]

Side note for anybody coming here...

On Ubuntu, with snapd, the keyboard-setup.serviceoverride.conf create a loop in dependencies.

$ systemd-analyze verify default.target

local-fs.target: Found ordering cycle on snap-chromium-2623.mount/start
local-fs.target: Found dependency on local-fs-pre.target/start
local-fs.target: Found dependency on keyboard-setup.service/start
local-fs.target: Found dependency on systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service/start
local-fs.target: Found dependency on local-fs.target/start
local-fs.target: Job snap-chromium-2623.mount/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with local-fs.target/start
local-fs.target: Found ordering cycle on local-fs-pre.target/start
local-fs.target: Found dependency on keyboard-setup.service/start
local-fs.target: Found dependency on systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service/start
local-fs.target: Found dependency on local-fs.target/start
local-fs.target: Job local-fs-pre.target/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with local-fs.target/start

For info only since this is a Debian thread.