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use "systemctl reboot -f" for reboot action 

In latest rawhide kdump kernel reboot hangs because systemd reports a
conflict when kdump calls reboot during booting. Need further investigation
about the new systemd behavior.

Here is the error message copied from kdump session:
[snip]
kdump: saving vmcore complete
Failed to start reboot.target: Transaction contains conflicting jobs 'stop' and 'start' for shutdown.target. Probably contradicting requirement dependencies configured.
Failed to talk to init daemon.
[FAILED] Failed to start Kdump Vmcore Save Service.
[snip]

We previouly use "reboot -f" but later we changed to reboot because we want
systemd to take care of the shutdown path, mainly for umount filesystems.

Change back to "reboot -f" works but we still need umount by ourselves.
During my tests with "reboot -f" I get below dirty ext2 filesystem:

[root@localhost ~]# fsck /dev/vdb
fsck from util-linux 2.27
e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
/dev/vdb was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.

Actually "reboot -f" equals to "systemctl reboot -f -f"

systemctl manpage says "-f" and "-f -f" means different behavior:
When use -f with reboot, will execute reboot without shutting down all units.
However all processes will be killed forcibly and all file systems are
unmounted or remounted read-only. If -f is specified twice, will reboot
immediately without terminating any processes or unmounting any file systems.

Thus change to use "systemctl reboot -f" for our reboot actions. It can fix
the problem and at the same time it can ensure filesystems are umounted before
rebooting.

OTOH, a systemd changes cause the breakage, it may be a system service new
design, Later I can dig into systemd changes see which commit cause the
breakage.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dangyi Liu <dliu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
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Dave Young 2015-12-11 15:06:02 +08:00
parent 53564adc08
commit b253434819
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@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ KDUMP_PATH="/var/crash"
CORE_COLLECTOR=""
DEFAULT_CORE_COLLECTOR="makedumpfile -l --message-level 1 -d 31"
DMESG_COLLECTOR="/sbin/vmcore-dmesg"
DEFAULT_ACTION="reboot"
DEFAULT_ACTION="systemctl reboot -f"
DATEDIR=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%T`
HOST_IP='127.0.0.1'
DUMP_INSTRUCTION=""
SSH_KEY_LOCATION="/root/.ssh/kdump_id_rsa"
KDUMP_SCRIPT_DIR="/kdumpscripts"
DD_BLKSIZE=512
FINAL_ACTION="reboot"
FINAL_ACTION="systemctl reboot -f"
KDUMP_CONF="/etc/kdump.conf"
KDUMP_PRE=""
KDUMP_POST=""
@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ get_kdump_confs()
DEFAULT_ACTION="kdump_emergency_shell"
;;
reboot)
DEFAULT_ACTION="reboot"
DEFAULT_ACTION="systemctl reboot -f"
;;
halt)
DEFAULT_ACTION="halt"