On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:32 PM, Jeff Backus <jeff.backus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Jeff Backus <jeff.backus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:07 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> wrote:

Might be a problem in systemd code to select clock type (monotonic/realtime/etc.).
You can try taking an older image, and compiling systemd, and running the tests.
Even something as simple as
  sudo dnf build-dep systemd
  git clone https://github.com/systemd/systemd
  cd systemd
  meson -Dman=false build && ninja -C build && ninja -C build test

If that passes, then the next step would be to take that older image,
install just the newer kernel, and repeat the tests.

Zbyszek


Here's a quick update, since I may not be able to get back to this until early next week. I was able to build the version of systemd that is in the master branch of the GH repo, SHA: 8255430. All tests that were executed pass under kernel 4.16.16-300. About 10 tests were skipped. The following skipped tests seem to be of particular interest:
* test-udev
* test-boot-timestamps

I was able to insert an "assert_se(1==0)" after the line that triggered the assertion when booting from the installer, and numerous tests fail. So that code is at least getting exercised.

Installed the latest version of the kernel available for F28, 4.17.3-200, and test results were the same. I am now trying to build 4.18.0-0.rc3, since that appears to be the latest version in rawhide.

I updated to 4.18.0-0.rc3 and the problem showed up. I didn't have long to glance at the logs, but I am seeing the systemd segfault related to udev. This is with whatever version my F28 system had installed, not the version I compiled from GH. So, looks like an issue in the kernel. I'll try to extract more info from the journal when I get a chance. Are there any boot options, etc. that would produce additional helpful info?

Thanks!
jeff

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