Arch Linux

Description: systemd 217 can lead to /run/xxx being missing for some services which do not start properly due to missing /run/xxx


Additional info:
Symptom is that
systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup
does not run cleanly on boot.

In addition journal has messages typified by:

Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service/start
Job systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start

Discussed on arch-general:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2014-November/037700.html

Bug fix upstream seems to be this one:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=919699ec301ea507edce4a619141ed22e789ac0d

I found core symptom went away after patching the unit file as shown in the diff above.
N.B. I did not recompile systemd package with the C code patch to nspawn.c


* package version(s) 217-3
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce: Boot