latest xubuntu jammy daily isos fail to install on asus, lenovo & msi

[Otto Ersek]

Hi,

I downloaded the latest xubuntu jammy images 20230901 (and previous ones, verified them)

On a Mac all went well with a fresh install, however on a Lenovo, Asus, MSI the installer fails...

udev startup job hangs and is restarted several times with 3 minutes increments
I get several different errors:

Dependency failed for Install ZFS kernel module
Dependency failed for Import ZFS,...

Failing start job without limit!
Load Kernel Module efi_pstore

Thank you for sorting this out
Kind regards
Otto

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

the zfs dependency in question is systemd-udev-settle.

Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu udevadm[1064]: systemd-udev-settle.service is deprecated. Please fix zfs-load-module.service, zfs-import-cache.service not to pull it in.

(heh)

Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu systemd[1]: systemd-udev-settle.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu systemd[1]: systemd-udev-settle.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu systemd[1]: systemd-udev-settle.service: Killing process 1064 (udevadm) with signal SIGKILL.
Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu systemd[1]: systemd-udev-settle.service: Processes still around after SIGKILL. Ignoring.
Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu systemd[1]: systemd-udev-settle.service: State 'final-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu systemd[1]: systemd-udev-settle.service: Killing process 1064 (udevadm) with signal SIGKILL.
Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu systemd[1]: systemd-udev-settle.service: Processes still around after final SIGKILL. Entering failed mode.
Sep 1 17:49:20 xubuntu systemd[1]: systemd-udev-settle.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

Opening tasks on systemd and zfsutils-linux, since these packages need to fight it out wrt the "deprecation".

And opening a task on the kernel, because a udevadm process that doesn't die with SIGKILL means it's hung in the kernel.

[Nick Rosbrook (enr0n)]

The deprecation of systemd-udev-settle.service has been in place since at least v243[1], and upstream OpenZFS has been tracking this for a few years[2].

I don't think anything should change in systemd WRT the deprecation notice.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1662732768d4846805bb0143eb08bfaa38e89423
[2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1662732768d4846805bb0143eb08bfaa38e89423