Bug#769069: systemd: Failed to start Login Service

Wed Nov 12 08:45:45 UTC 2014

Am Mittwoch, den 12.11.2014, 02:10 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 11.11.2014 um 23:49 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> > Am Dienstag, den 11.11.2014, 13:34 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> >> Sounds like dbus is not installed. Paul, can you confirm that? 
> > 
> > It is installed. The failure happened with 1.8.8-2, now it was upgraded
> > to 1.8.10-1.
> > 
> >> Am 11. November 2014 08:55:00 MEZ, schrieb Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org>:
> > 
> >>> Paul Menzel [2014-11-11  8:40 +0100]:
> >>>> starting the Debian Sid/unstable system this morning, it did not boot.
> >>>>
> >>>> `Failed to start Login Service` was shown repeatedly as trying to start
> >>>> it again did not work.
> >>>
> >>> Can you please boot with adding "systemd.debug-shell" to the kernel
> >>> command line in grub, then after the failure press Alt+F9 to get to
> >>> the debug root shell? There you can run
> >>> "systemctl status systemd-logind.service" to see what's going on.
> > 
> > It only happened once until now. I have no idea how to reproduce it.
> 
> Since it's not reproducible and if you have no further logs from the
> incident, I'd suggest we close the bug report and re-open once you run
> into it again and can reproduce it.
> 
> Are you ok with that?

Not yet. ;-) Does the following help?

        $ journalctl -b -3 -u dbus.service -u logind.service
        -- Logs begin at Sa 2014-09-27 16:08:57 CEST, end at Mi 2014-11-12 09:41:28 CET. --
        Nov 11 07:45:46 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkitd.servi
        Nov 11 07:45:58 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.login1' unit='dbus-org.freedesk
        Nov 11 07:46:16 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:46:16 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:46:16 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedeskt
        Nov 11 07:46:23 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:46:23 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkitd.servi
        Nov 11 07:46:41 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:46:41 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi': timed out
        Nov 11 07:46:48 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:46:52 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1' unit='wpa_supplicant.ser
        Nov 11 07:46:52 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.f
        Nov 11 07:47:06 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:47:17 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:47:17 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher': timed out
        Nov 11 07:47:31 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:47:56 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:48:21 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
        Nov 11 07:48:46 asrock-350m1 dbus[945]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
        $ journalctl -b -3 -u systemd-logind.service
        -- Logs begin at Sa 2014-09-27 16:08:57 CEST, end at Mi 2014-11-12 09:41:28 CET. --
        Nov 11 07:46:11 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
        Nov 11 07:46:11 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
        Nov 11 07:46:11 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
        Nov 11 07:46:41 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
        Nov 11 07:46:41 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
        Nov 11 07:46:41 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
        Nov 11 07:47:06 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
        Nov 11 07:47:06 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
        Nov 11 07:47:06 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
        Nov 11 07:47:31 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
        Nov 11 07:47:31 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
        Nov 11 07:47:31 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
        Nov 11 07:47:56 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
        Nov 11 07:47:56 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
        Nov 11 07:47:56 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
        Nov 11 07:48:21 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
        Nov 11 07:48:21 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
        Nov 11 07:48:21 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
        Nov 11 07:48:46 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
        Nov 11 07:48:46 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
        Nov 11 07:48:46 asrock-350m1 systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.

Thanks,

Paul
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