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cubethethird

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Registered: 2016-01-25

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Hanging on boot after systemd upgrade

I've just updated my system, including systemd from version 245.2-2 -> 245.3-2. After rebooting, several of my lvm2 partitions would timeout while mounting. After much troubleshooting, I was able to circumvent the problem by changing mkinitcpio HOOKS, replacing systemd with udev, and subsequently the sd-lvm2 hook with the regular lvm2 hook.

I want to try and identify the cause of this issue, but I'm not sure where to start looking. There isn't much in the way of logs that I can retrieve, since apart from the systemd output during startup, nothing seems to be persistent.
Essentially, I want to determine if this is an issue with my system configuration, or with the systemd libraries, and report bugs accordingly.

If there are any tips on how to debug this, that would be appreciated.

For reference, a bit more info about my system:
I have separate partitions for /boot, /, /var, /home, using LVM (except /boot)
I am not using LUKS or other forms of disk encryption
I am booting using systemd-boot