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[isar-cip-core] Bullseye: Fix journalctl on read-only

Message ID 20220419154918.223283-1-Quirin.Gylstorff@siemens.com (mailing list archive)
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Series [isar-cip-core] Bullseye: Fix journalctl on read-only | expand

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Gylstorff Quirin April 19, 2022, 3:49 p.m. UTC
From: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>

If an image with a read-only partition and etc overlay
is build journalctl does not display the system log in
Debian Bullseye.

The log is available with the command `journalctl --merged'.

The root cause is overwriting the  mount point for /etc/machine-id
by the etc-overlay. This leads to the usage of multiple machine-ids
and journalctl does not match the current used journal file to
the machine.

Signed-off-by: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
---
 kas-cip.yml                                   |  4 ++
 ...stproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch | 37 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch

Comments

Jan Kiszka April 21, 2022, 5:28 a.m. UTC | #1
On 19.04.22 17:49, Q. Gylstorff wrote:
> From: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
> 
> If an image with a read-only partition and etc overlay
> is build journalctl does not display the system log in
> Debian Bullseye.
> 
> The log is available with the command `journalctl --merged'.
> 
> The root cause is overwriting the  mount point for /etc/machine-id
> by the etc-overlay. This leads to the usage of multiple machine-ids
> and journalctl does not match the current used journal file to
> the machine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
> ---
>  kas-cip.yml                                   |  4 ++
>  ...stproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch | 37 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch
> 
> diff --git a/kas-cip.yml b/kas-cip.yml
> index fce176b..2c2b7d7 100644
> --- a/kas-cip.yml
> +++ b/kas-cip.yml
> @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ repos:
>        fix-pseudo:
>          repo: cip-core
>          path: patches/isar/0001-Fix-permissions-when-splitting-rootfs-folders-across.patch
> +      fix-machine-id:
> +        repo: cip-core
> +        path: patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch
> +
>  
>  bblayers_conf_header:
>    standard: |
> diff --git a/patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch b/patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..95b49ae
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
> +From 6e72a422c52f9995f5ee3acca293b92a7c0194d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: kas <kas@example.com>
> +Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:52:54 +0000
> +Subject: [PATCH] classes/image-postproc-extension: Remove /etc/machine-id
> +
> +In a read-only system the machine id should be deleted or 
> +set to `unitialized\n`[1]. 
> +
> +Systemd will generate a new machine-id during the first boot. 
> +In the case of a read-only root file system Systemd generates a mount point with 
> +the machine id. If an overlay for /etc is used this creates a mount conflict. 
> +To avoid the conflict between the overlay filesystem and systemd /etc/machine-id 
> +mount point deleted the file /etc/machine-id.
> +
> +[1]: https://systemd.io/BUILDING_IMAGES/
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
> +---
> + meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass | 2 +-
> + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> +
> +diff --git a/meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass b/meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass
> +index ca520273..0c412c0d 100644
> +--- a/meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass
> ++++ b/meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass
> +@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND =+ "image_postprocess_machine_id"
> + image_postprocess_machine_id() {
> +     # systemd(1) takes care of recreating the machine-id on first boot
> +     sudo rm -f '${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/var/lib/dbus/machine-id'
> +-    sudo install -m 644 '/dev/null' '${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/machine-id'
> ++    sudo rm -f '${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/machine-id'
> + }
> + 
> + ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND =+ "image_postprocess_sshd_key_regen"
> +-- 
> +2.35.1
> +

As discussed directly already: It takes more than that to make systemd
happy, and the easiest approach will be mounting /etc overlay from
within the initramfs. I have a prototype working, but it will also need
a conversion of image-uuid to a cip-core-initramfs recipe so that it can
be applied to both secure and non-secure read-only setups. I'm on it.

Jan
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diff --git a/kas-cip.yml b/kas-cip.yml
index fce176b..2c2b7d7 100644
--- a/kas-cip.yml
+++ b/kas-cip.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@  repos:
       fix-pseudo:
         repo: cip-core
         path: patches/isar/0001-Fix-permissions-when-splitting-rootfs-folders-across.patch
+      fix-machine-id:
+        repo: cip-core
+        path: patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch
+
 
 bblayers_conf_header:
   standard: |
diff --git a/patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch b/patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95b49ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/isar/0001-classes-image-postproc-extension-Remove-etc-machine-.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ 
+From 6e72a422c52f9995f5ee3acca293b92a7c0194d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: kas <kas@example.com>
+Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:52:54 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] classes/image-postproc-extension: Remove /etc/machine-id
+
+In a read-only system the machine id should be deleted or 
+set to `unitialized\n`[1]. 
+
+Systemd will generate a new machine-id during the first boot. 
+In the case of a read-only root file system Systemd generates a mount point with 
+the machine id. If an overlay for /etc is used this creates a mount conflict. 
+To avoid the conflict between the overlay filesystem and systemd /etc/machine-id 
+mount point deleted the file /etc/machine-id.
+
+[1]: https://systemd.io/BUILDING_IMAGES/
+
+Signed-off-by: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
+---
+ meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass b/meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass
+index ca520273..0c412c0d 100644
+--- a/meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass
++++ b/meta/classes/image-postproc-extension.bbclass
+@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND =+ "image_postprocess_machine_id"
+ image_postprocess_machine_id() {
+     # systemd(1) takes care of recreating the machine-id on first boot
+     sudo rm -f '${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/var/lib/dbus/machine-id'
+-    sudo install -m 644 '/dev/null' '${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/machine-id'
++    sudo rm -f '${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/machine-id'
+ }
+ 
+ ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND =+ "image_postprocess_sshd_key_regen"
+-- 
+2.35.1
+