boot.mount occasionally times out on boot

[DaanDeMeyer]

systemd version the issue has been seen with

v255

Used distribution

Arch Linux

Linux kernel version used

6.6.4.arch1-1

CPU architectures issue was seen on

x86_64

Component

systemd

Expected behaviour you didn't see

boot.mount automount mounts succesfully

Unexpected behaviour you saw

boot..mount occasionally times out during boot. Debug logs don't say anything useful, just that we've forked off mount and after that nothing.

Steps to reproduce the problem

git clone https://github.com/systemd/mkosi
cd mkosi
MKOSI_TEST_DISTRIBUTION=arch pytest tests/test_boot.py::test_boot[disk] -m "integration" -svx --tb=no

Additional program output to the terminal or log subsystem illustrating the issue

Mounting EFI System Partition Automount...
boot.mount: Mounting timed out. Terminating.
boot.mount: Mount process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
boot.mount: Failed with result 'timeout'.
[FAILED] Failed to mount EFI System Partition Automount.
See 'systemctl status boot.mount' for details.
[   96.746717] bootctl[351]: Couldn't find EFI system partition, skipping.

[bluca]

Reminds me of: #29682

[DaanDeMeyer]

This is caused by systemd.default_standard_output=journal+console which means the previous fix doesn't work as we still lock the tty. We need to figure out the actual deadlock to fix this case.

[DaanDeMeyer]

Should be fixed by legionus/kbd#105

[DaanDeMeyer]

Fix was merged. If you encounter this and need a quick workaround, add a dropin for systemd-vconsole-setup.service with the following contents:

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/usr/share/empty