FS#52138 - hidepid.service hangs on boot

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Davis Forquer (d.forquer) - Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 09:19 GMT
Last edited by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 14:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Daniel Micay (thestinger)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:

The hidepid.service file hangs on boot, with message "Waiting for the hidepid.service to start" with unlimited time to wait (and thus machine is unable to boot).

Manual remount of the /proc after the boot works as expected.


Additional info:
* hidepid 1-1

Steps to reproduce:
* systemctl enable hidepid.service, reboot machine
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Closed by  Daniel Micay (thestinger)
Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 14:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  This is no longer going to be offered / maintained.
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 22:06 GMT
It still works fine here. Also, systemctl enable hidepid doesn't do anything.
Comment by Jed Liu (jed) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 00:02 GMT
I installed the hidepid package on 11 Arch Linux machines. Works fine on all but one. On the eleventh, I get the "Waiting for hidepid to start" message on boot, which seemingly waits forever. To get that machine to boot again, I ended up having to boot into the Arch installer to uninstall hidepid.
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 00:13 GMT
So what's different about that setup?
Comment by Jed Liu (jed) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 00:24 GMT
Nothing relevant that I know of. Eight of the machines are headless servers, one is a laptop, and two are desktops. The one exhibiting the issue is one of the desktops, and is set up pretty similarly to the laptop and the other desktop. I am attaching the output of "pacman -Qqet" for the two desktops, in case it helps. The file package-list-1.txt contains the package list for the desktop with the issue.
   package-list-1.txt (2.1 KiB)
   package-list-2.txt (1.8 KiB)
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 00:29 GMT
And did this ever happen before or is this new?
Comment by Jed Liu (jed) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 00:34 GMT
Can't really say whether this is a new issue. I only learned about hidepid last week. Happened the first time I rebooted after installing the package.
Comment by Jed Liu (jed) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 00:38 GMT
Oh, sorry, I just realised that this issue actually extends back to at least October. Davis Forquer, the guy that originally opened this bug, reported the issue on the forums back in October: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218472
Comment by Davis Forquer (d.forquer) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 07:58 GMT
Ah, yes sorry about mistake in description. Steps to reproduce: pacman -S hidepid.service; reboot.

I attached my output "pacman -Qqet"
   package-list.txt (3.4 KiB)

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