Package: systemd
Version: 244.3-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
This morning my ThinkPad T430 failed to boot with the message:
Error: The non-volatile variable storage is about full
Press F1 to enter Setup.
The cause was the same as #891434: the kernel had dumped dmesg in pstore
after an oops, which created dump-type0-* efivars, which had accumulated
sufficiently to cause UEFI pre-boot to require user action. (Luckily my
machine still boots, unlike in #891434.)
It appears that systemd-pstore.service should move these files to
/var/lib/systemd/pstore/ but the service is disabled. `systemctl status
systemd-pstore.service` shows:
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pstore.service; disabled;
vendor preset: enabled)"
I confirmed the same state occurs in a fresh testing install in a VM and
was not inadvertently disabled by me or a previous update.
Is there a reason systemd-pstore.service is disabled by default? Could
we consider enabling it to avoid causing UEFI boot issues?
Thanks,
Kevin
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.5.5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii libacl1 2.2.53-5
ii libapparmor1 2.13.3-7
ii libaudit1 1:2.8.5-2+b1
ii libblkid1 2.34-0.1
ii libc6 2.29-10
ii libcap2 1:2.32-1
ii libcryptsetup12 2:2.2.2-3
ii libgcrypt20 1.8.5-3
ii libgnutls30 3.6.12-2
ii libgpg-error0 1.37-1
ii libidn2-0 2.2.0-2
ii libip4tc2 1.8.4-3
ii libkmod2 27-1
ii liblz4-1 1.9.2-2
ii liblzma5 5.2.4-1+b1
ii libmount1 2.34-0.1
ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5
ii libpcre2-8-0 10.34-7
ii libseccomp2 2.4.2-2
ii libselinux1 3.0-1+b1
ii libsystemd0 244.3-1
ii mount 2.34-0.1
ii util-linux 2.34-0.1
Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii dbus 1.12.16-2
Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii policykit-1 0.105-26
pn systemd-container <none>
Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn dracut <none>
ii initramfs-tools 0.136
ii libnss-systemd 244.3-1
ii libpam-systemd 244.3-1
ii udev 244.3-1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/journald.conf changed [not included]
/etc/systemd/system.conf changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
