Package: systemd Version: 208-6 Severity: important --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
I had the following two lines in my /etc/fstab and these caused systemd to not boot anymore. tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults,relatime,mode=1777 0 0 tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults,relatime,mode=1777 0 0 It complained about /run/systemd/private not being available and indeed the system dbus was not started. With an older kernel (3.12) I got it to get kdm started, but I could not enter my password, it simply did not accept any keyboard input. Switching to the console only worked thanks to the menu option in kdm that I could activate with the mouse. I couldn't install or configure certain new packages, because their post- install scripts again failed due to the missing dbus socket. So after trying to install sysvinit-core and rebooting, booting failed even harder, apparently because of missing /bin/init. I could only fix this in grub with init=/bin/bash After searching for similar problems on a second computer, I found those boot- bugs with encrypted and nfts filesystems in /etc/fstab which brought me into commenting out the tmpfs lines. So there's a few problems here: - systemd does not know how to deal with certain entries in fstab (somewhat OK) - systemd does not report or log any error about that (NOT OK) - systemd breaks the entire system instead of just skipping those entries (NOT OK) - systemd did not allow me to manually start dbus (NOT OK) - (this might go to a different report): packages should be installable without dbus being available I fixed the problem by (re-)installing systemd-shim and systemd-sysv Thanks Carsten PS: yes, I noticed that the tmpfs lines are superfluous by now, since they can be managed through /etc/default/tmpfs. That was not possible when I had added them. --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 Debian Release: jessie/sid 500 unstable www.deb-multimedia.org 500 unstable ftp.de.debian.org 500 stable security.debian.org 1 experimental ftp.de.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ================================================-+-========================= libacl1 (>= 2.2.51-8) | libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1) | libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2) | libc6 (>= 2.17) | libcap2 (>= 2.10) | libcryptsetup4 (>= 2:1.4.3) | libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1) | libgcrypt11 (>= 1.5.1) | libkmod2 (>= 5~) | liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614) | libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1) | libselinux1 (>= 2.1.9) | libsystemd-daemon0 (= 208-6) | libsystemd-journal0 (= 208-6) | libudev1 (>= 189) | libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~) | libsystemd-login0 (= 208-6) | util-linux (>= 2.19.1-2) | initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-17) | sysv-rc | udev | acl | adduser | libcap2-bin | Recommends (Version) | Installed =============================-+-=========== libpam-systemd | 208-6 Suggests (Version) | Installed =========================-+-=========== systemd-ui | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org