Comment 0 for bug 1444402

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : While sbuilding, systemd loops attempting to umount the underlay

I recently hit ENOSPC which turned out to be the result of various syslogs from the current and previous boots totalling up to 30G.

They were filled with messages like

Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid systemd[1]: Unit var-lib-schroot-union-underlay-vivid\x2damd64\x2d5d4f7453\x2d9a95\x2d4a6a\x2d9aee\x2d9394923bf734.mount is bound to inactive unit dev-disk-by\x2duuid-980689ca\x2de7d9\x2d4a99\x2d8230\x2d33b8b6e917cd.device. Stopping, too.
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid systemd[1]: Unmounting /var/lib/schroot/union/underlay/vivid-amd64-5d4f7453-9a95-4a6a-9aee-9394923bf734...
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid umount[31795]: umount: /var/lib/schroot/union/underlay/vivid-amd64-5d4f7453-9a95-4a6a-9aee-9394923bf734: target is busy
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid umount[31795]: (In some cases useful info about processes that
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid umount[31795]: use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).)
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid systemd[1]: var-lib-schroot-union-underlay-vivid\x2damd64\x2d5d4f7453\x2d9a95\x2d4a6a\x2d9aee\x2d9394923bf734.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=32
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid systemd[1]: Failed unmounting /var/lib/schroot/union/underlay/vivid-amd64-5d4f7453-9a95-4a6a-9aee-9394923bf734.
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid systemd[1]: Unit var-lib-schroot-union-underlay-vivid\x2damd64\x2d5d4f7453\x2d9a95\x2d4a6a\x2d9aee\x2d9394923bf734.mount is bound to inactive unit dev-disk-by\x2duuid-980689ca\x2de7d9\x2d4a99\x2d8230\x2d33b8b6e917cd.device. Stopping, too.
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid systemd[1]: Unmounting /var/lib/schroot/union/underlay/vivid-amd64-5d4f7453-9a95-4a6a-9aee-9394923bf734...
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid systemd[1]: Unmounted /var/lib/schroot/union/underlay/vivid-amd64-5d4f7453-9a95-4a6a-9aee-9394923bf734.
Apr 15 11:22:35 vivid systemd[1]: Unit var-lib-schroot-union-underlay-vivid\x2damd64\x2d5d4f7453\x2d9a95\x2d4a6a\x2d9aee\x2d9394923bf734.mount entered failed state.

looping constantly for the duration of any builds in sbuild.

Why is systemd trying to do this?

laney@vivid> apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 219-7ubuntu1
  Candidate: 219-7ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 219-7ubuntu1 0
        500 http://sherwood/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status