Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > On 2014-07-24 16:18 +0200, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Johann Spies <johann.sp...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> This morning my work laptop would not boot. I could not even get to >>> single user mode initially and when I got as far as that I could >>> not >>> type anything on the terminal. I suspect some upgrade yesterday caused it. > > There should be at least some message on the terminal, although other > people have not been able to log in in that situation either[1]. > >> Yesterday I had the same problem when I rebooted, it left me at a tty >> screen, where I was prompted to input my login and password, it then >> lead on to my lightdm screen, as expected. > > That's not the same problem. In fact, it is not even a problem but > merely the fact that getty starts up much faster than X. > >> Whilst booting it showed an error message, which I've since been unable >> to find, that systemd had broken error/start messages. > > You should be able to find them in the journal, see journalctl(1). > Note that that systemd clears the boot messages by default when it > starts getty, see [2] on how to change that. > > Cheers, > Sven > > > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755581 > 2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages > Thanks for this, this is the error message that I saw --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Jul 23 06:34:47 london systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job downtimed.service/start Jul 23 06:34:47 london systemd[1]: Job downtimed.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Hope it helps Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.92.1
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