[systemd-devel] How to debug this strange issue about "systemd"?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 01.08.15 12:51, sean (xrfu at suse.com) wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 10:43 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > >> See "man dracut" and the "Debugging dracut" section. Also see "man
> > >> dracut.cmdline" and the "rd.break" bits.
> > >>
> > > 
> > > Was it not man dracut.kernel?
> > 
> > dracut.kernel == dracut.cmdline here (the latter seems to be the
> > preferred name as it's the title in the manpage) and indeed:
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun  5 17:11
> > /usr/share/man/man7/dracut.kernel.7.xz -> dracut.cmdline.7.xz
> Thanks very much for all help.
> The root cause is that 64 bit libraries were not included in the real
> ext4 file system.
> 
> But now a new issue appears, Boot failed at "[ ok ] Reached target
> System Initialization".
> How to debug it?
> 
> 
> The attachment is the full log message. 
> 
> [FAILED] Failed to start Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
> See "systemctl status postfix.service" for details.
>          Starting Command Scheduler...
> [  OK  ] Started Command Scheduler.
>          Starting smfpd.service...
> [  OK  ] Started smfpd.service.
>          Starting /etc/init.d/boot.local Compatibility...
> [  OK  ] Started /etc/init.d/boot.local Compatibility.
>          Starting Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit...
>          Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen...

Your boot shows tons of failed services. It might be a good idea to
look into those services with "systemctl status" and then talk to your
distro about this, as downstream services are not really something we
can help you with at systemd upstream.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat