Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

#17759 new bug

Updating after a previous working state is restored made the system unbootable.

Reported by: Nexus-6 Owned by: bonefish
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Servers/package_daemon Version: R1/Development
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

The description of all the steps, symptoms and finally my personal workaround are described here:

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/solved-hrev56131-no-boot/12217/9?u=nexus-6

I am not able to provide a syslog because the system never hit the bootloader after the reboot, moreover I did not captured the syslog before rebooting the system. Nevertheless, I don't believe that nothing would have been written to it as this a userland process.

My personal summary is that there are two scenarios which seem related:

  1. updating a system either from SoftwareUpdater or pkgman temporarily puts the system in an inconsistent state until reboot. This seems to be the same process as restoring the system to a previous state from Haiku boot menu.
  2. Updating from a restored state is not well supported and potentially leads to a non bootable system (like occurred to me).

I hope this details would be sufficient for a triage.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by waddlesplash, 3 years ago

Component: System/runtime_loaderServers/package_daemon
Keywords: restore update failure unbootable removed
Owner: changed from nobody to bonefish

The first scenario I have encountered and is definitely reproducible. The second I have never encountered, and it sounds like something else went wrong: if packages are left in a "transaction" directory, this means the upgrade was not actually completed; so you probably rebooted while your system was in an inconsistent state and thus broke it. Probably we can and should implement safeguards to prevent this from happening, but first we would have to determine how to trigger it, or at least guess.

comment:2 by waddlesplash, 2 years ago

Milestone: R1/beta4Unscheduled
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