On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:54:23AM -0400, Graham Murphy wrote:
> I'll add an extra data point. I find that boot succeeds if the file
> /etc/machine-id exists, even if it is an empty file.
> 
> So far as I can tell from a brief look, systemd tries
> to create the file /etc/machine-id, if it does not exist,
> but this appears to be attempted when the root file system
> is readonly. (And, yes, if you force the root filesystem to
> be read-write when /sbin/init starts, again the boot will be
> successful.) Not sure yet why that cascades into the observed
> failure yet.

Thanks, that's a good analysis! Wondering why it's not manifesting in a proper 
error message in systemd...

-- 
Denys

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