On 23/08/14 14:29, Bzzzz wrote: > Hmm, -ba was refused (Failed to parse boot descriptor 'a') but -ab > was accepted (sounds normal from the man point of view) - > journal.txt is attached.
Yes, my mistake, -ba is parsed as "messages from the boot named 'a'"; -ab or -a -b is "unabbreviated messages from this boot", which is what I intended to ask for. So, the root cause of your problems is that systemd is detecting (what it thinks is) a serious problem and going into emergency repair mode: > août 23 08:08:02 anubis systemd[1]: Expecting device > dev-sdg1.device... ... > août 23 08:09:32 anubis systemd[1]: Job dev-sdg1.device/start > timed out. août 23 08:09:32 anubis systemd[1]: Timed out waiting > for device dev-sdg1.device. août 23 08:09:32 anubis systemd[1]: > Dependency failed for /media/KEY. août 23 08:09:32 anubis > systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Local File Systems. août 23 > 08:09:32 anubis systemd[1]: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies of > local-fs.target. août 23 08:09:32 anubis systemd[1]: Dependency > failed for File System Check on /dev/sdg1. ... > août 23 08:09:32 anubis systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System. > août 23 08:09:32 anubis systemd[1]: Stopped target System > Initialization. ... > août 23 08:09:32 anubis systemd[1]: Starting Emergency Shell... You have a line in your /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/* for /dev/sdg1 (/media/KEY), which is not present, and is probably a USB flash drive or something. Please tell us what that line is (before changing it). Under sysvinit, if a required device in fstab is missing, the system will try to muddle along without it; but systemd detects missing devices, treats that as a serious problem and goes into emergency mode. The solution is to add noauto and/or nofail to the mount options for /dev/sdg1 and any other removable/non-essential devices, to tell systemd that their absence is not really serious, and then leave emergency mode with "systemctl default". Getting out of emergency mode should return your system to a better state. However, it might also be considered to be a bug that installing packages that contain services, while in emergency mode, doesn't work. Under sysvinit, invoke-rc.d would start the service if it should be running in the current runlevel, and ignore it if it should not. Under systemd, invoke-rc.d will always try to start the service even if the target that wants it is not active, and if that fails, invoke-rc.d fails. systemd maintainers: do you think that's a bug in invoke-rc.d's systemd support, or do you consider package installation while sysinit.target is not active to be an unsupported action? Regards, S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org