[systemd-devel] recovery boot hangs at “systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket”

[Lennart Poettering]

On Do, 14.12.17 10:03, Joachim Wuttke (j.wuttke at fz-juelich.de) wrote:

> On recovery boot, systemd is hanging after printing the line:
> [  <time>] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket
> 
> What is systemd supposed to be doing?
> 
> What other software is involved?
> (I may have caused the problem by inadvertedly uninstalling some packages)
> 
> How to debug / to recover?

Boot with systemd.log_level=debug to get more debug output on boot,
which might help you figure out what's going on.

Boot with systemd.debug-shell=1 and you'll have a debugging shell on
Alt-F9. Use "systemctl list-jobs" from it to figure out what is being
waited on.

https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat