Bug#954290: kexec doesn't do reboots on systemd install?

2021-03-22 Thread Jerome Charaoui
severity important thanks Hello, After some time trying to figure this out, I came to the conclusion that /sbin/reboot via kexec, which is supposed to be the default behavior of this package, does not work with recent versions of systemd (eg. bullseye). Hence, upgrading the severity of this b

Bug#954290: kexec doesn't do reboots on systemd install?

2020-05-23 Thread Vasudev Kamath
Khalid Aziz writes: > > kdump relies upon kexec but it is configured separately by kdump-tools. > kexec works just fine with systemd. It is just the wording of configure > message in kexec-tools package that is misleading and needs fixing. Yes that was part of my confusion too. Was wondering it

Bug#954290: kexec doesn't do reboots on systemd install?

2020-05-23 Thread Khalid Aziz
On 5/22/20 11:16 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > Vasudev Kamath writes: > >> In our setup of Debian 9 we noticed many kernel panic which never crash >> dumped so was searching if there is something wrong in our setup and >> came across this bug. While looking at systemd I noticed there is a >> servic

Bug#954290: kexec doesn't do reboots on systemd install?

2020-05-22 Thread Vasudev Kamath
Vasudev Kamath writes: > In our setup of Debian 9 we noticed many kernel panic which never crash > dumped so was searching if there is something wrong in our setup and > came across this bug. While looking at systemd I noticed there is a > service called systemd-kexec.service which is disabled by

Bug#954290: kexec doesn't do reboots on systemd install?

2020-05-22 Thread Vasudev Kamath
In our setup of Debian 9 we noticed many kernel panic which never crash dumped so was searching if there is something wrong in our setup and came across this bug. While looking at systemd I noticed there is a service called systemd-kexec.service which is disabled by default. Is this needs to be e

Bug#954290: kexec doesn't do reboots on systemd install?

2020-03-20 Thread Khalid Aziz
On 3/19/20 1:09 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: > Package: kexec-tools > Version: 1:2.0.20-2 > > When I do "dpkg-reconfigure kexec-tools" (on armhf), it asks me "Should > kexec-tools handle reboots (sysvinit only)?" > > This suggests to me that kexec-tools will/can not be used to do reboots on a > syst

Bug#954290: kexec doesn't do reboots on systemd install?

2020-03-19 Thread Brian Sammon
Package: kexec-tools Version: 1:2.0.20-2 When I do "dpkg-reconfigure kexec-tools" (on armhf), it asks me "Should kexec-tools handle reboots (sysvinit only)?" This suggests to me that kexec-tools will/can not be used to do reboots on a systemd install. Is that correct? Can systemd support be a