Hello, as I got the same problem on my raspberry, probably I can give some details.
This is the situation I started: - put 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img on SD-card and booted - changed sources.list and did the upgrade - appended "systemd.debug-shell" to /boot/cmdline.txt - reboot For some reason it looks like /etc/init.d/cgroup-bin is still installed even cgroup-bin is a transitional package. This script tries to mount /sys/fs/cgroup/memory but seems to fail and it then unmounts /sys/fs/cgroup. Therefore systemd cannot create new cgroups or spawning processes cannot attach to them. By purging just cgroup-bin I got expected booting again. cgroup-bin[455]: Kernel lacks cgroups or memory controller not available, not starting cgroups. ... (warning). systemd[1]: Failed to create cgroup /system.slice/ntp.service: No such file or directory systemd[481]: Failed at step CGROUP spawning /etc/init.d/ntp: No such file or directory Kind regards, Bernhard root@raspberrypi:/# dpkg -l cgroup-bin Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==========================-==================-==================-========================================================= ii cgroup-bin 0.41-6 all control and monitor control groups (transitional package) root@raspberrypi:/# dpkg -L cgroup-bin /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/cgroup-bin /usr/share/doc/cgroup-bin/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/cgroup-bin/copyright /etc/init.d/cgroup-bin root@raspberrypi:/# ls -lisah /etc/init.d/cgroup-bin 36115 4.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 950 Dec 18 2013 /etc/init.d/cgroup-bin root@raspberrypi:/# cat /etc/init.d/cgroup-bin #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: init-cgroups # Required-Start: mountkernfs # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Mounts cgroup filesystems ### END INIT INFO PATH=/sbin:/bin . /lib/lsb/init-functions do_start () { log_action_msg "Initializing cgroups" mount -t tmpfs none /sys/fs/cgroup mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory if ! mount -t cgroup none /sys/fs/cgroup/memory -o memory 2> /dev/null; then umount /sys/fs/cgroup log_warning_msg "Kernel lacks cgroups or memory controller not available, not starting cgroups." exit 0 fi chmod a+r /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.pressure_level } case "$1" in start) do_start ;; restart|reload|force-reload) echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2 exit 3 ;; stop) # No-op ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac root@raspberrypi:/root# dpkg --purge cgroup-bin (Reading database ... 100744 files and directories currently installed.) Removing cgroup-bin (0.41-6) ... Purging configuration files for cgroup-bin (0.41-6) ... root@raspberrypi:/root# reboot -f # as regular reboot did not work at this point anymore _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers