Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

After upgrading the system with apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade
as usual, and booting the laptop the next day, I couldn't even boot.

I always had a microSDHC card inserted in the laptop, with my encrypted
keyring and a few other encrypted partitions.  There are fstab(5)
entries for them, and also crypttab(5) entries.  systemd has always
worked with that and never gave any problems.  Now it won't boot
anymore.  I've had to extract the card from the slot and reboot so that
this systemd regression would allow me to boot.

	$ cat /etc/fstab | awk '/alx.BEGIN/,/alx.END/'
	# alx BEGIN
	/dev/mapper/alx-bak-g	/home/alx/keyring/bak/gnupg	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-bak-s	/home/alx/keyring/bak/ssh	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-bak-p	/home/alx/keyring/bak/password-store	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-bak-m	/home/alx/keyring/bak/master	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-bak-a	/home/alx/keyring/bak/abook	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx

	/dev/mapper/alx-usb-g	/home/alx/.gnupg	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-usb-s	/home/alx/.ssh	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-usb-p	/home/alx/.password-store	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-usb-m	/home/alx/keyring/master	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-usb-a	/home/alx/.abook	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx

	/dev/mapper/alx-k-g	/home/alx/.gnupg	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-k-s	/home/alx/.ssh	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-k-p	/home/alx/.password-store	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-k-m	/home/alx/keyring/master	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx
	/dev/mapper/alx-k-a	/home/alx/.abook	ext4	noauto,defaults,user=alx

	/dev/mapper/alx-opt	/opt	ext4	noauto,defaults
	/dev/mapper/alx-srv	/srv	ext4	noauto,defaults
	# alx END

Because of the 'noauto', this never gave problems.  It only mounted when
I ask it to, after logging in.  But now it seems systemd is trying to
mount them, and does it repeatedly.

Here's the crypttab(5):

	$ cat /etc/crypttab | awk '/alx.BEGIN/,/alx.END/'# alx BEGIN
	alx-usb-g	/dev/sda1	none	noauto
	alx-usb-s	/dev/sda2	none	noauto
	alx-usb-p	/dev/sda3	none	noauto
	alx-usb-m	/dev/sda4	none	noauto
	alx-usb-a	/dev/sda5	none	noauto

	alx-bak-g	/dev/sdb1	none	noauto
	alx-bak-s	/dev/sdb2	none	noauto
	alx-bak-p	/dev/sdb3	none	noauto
	alx-bak-m	/dev/sdb4	none	noauto
	alx-bak-a	/dev/sdb5	none	noauto

	alx-k-g	/dev/mmcblk0p1	none	noauto
	alx-k-s	/dev/mmcblk0p2	none	noauto
	alx-k-p	/dev/mmcblk0p3	none	noauto
	alx-k-m	/dev/mmcblk0p4	none	noauto
	alx-k-a	/dev/mmcblk0p5	none	noauto

	alx-opt	/dev/nvme0n1p4	none	noauto
	alx-srv	/dev/nvme0n1p5	none	noauto
	# alx END

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?

After extracting the card, I could boot, but I still see some errors:

	[   10.653392] systemd-fstab-generator[735]: Failed to create unit file '/run/systemd/generator/home-alx-.gnupg.mount', as it already exists. Duplicate entry in '/etc/fstab'?
	[   10.653489] systemd-fstab-generator[735]: Failed to create unit file '/run/systemd/generator/home-alx-.ssh.mount', as it already exists. Duplicate entry in '/etc/fstab'?
	[   10.653548] systemd-fstab-generator[735]: Failed to create unit file '/run/systemd/generator/home-alx-.password\x2dstore.mount', as it already exists. Duplicate entry in '/etc/fstab'?
	[   10.653610] systemd-fstab-generator[735]: Failed to create unit file '/run/systemd/generator/home-alx-keyring-master.mount', as it already exists. Duplicate entry in '/etc/fstab'?
	[   10.653666] systemd-fstab-generator[735]: Failed to create unit file '/run/systemd/generator/home-alx-.abook.mount', as it already exists. Duplicate entry in '/etc/fstab'?
	[   10.655359] (generato[731]: '/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-fstab-generator' failed with exit status 1.

But I don't want to be exteracting the card in every boot.

If I don't extract the card, I can't boot at all (and thus can't even
report the errors I see then, since I'm on a trip and don't have another
computer).

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Normal boot without extracting the card, as always.


I'm unable to report upstream, because systemd maintainers have banned
me on their github page, unfairly I shall say.


Have a lovely day!
Alex