[systemd-devel] Strange problem: Failed to get properties: Failed to activate service

[Lennart Poettering]

On Do, 18.10.18 15:14, Cecil Westerhof (cldwesterhof at gmail.com) wrote:

> I found out that in reality no reboot had taken place. For one reason or
> another that did not work. Doing:
>     systemctl reboot
>     systemctl poweroff
>     init 0
>     halt
> 
> All did not work. Those gave messages like:
>     Transport endpoint is not connected
> 
> I did a hard reset and that seems to have solved my problem.
> 
> My problems started after an update of VirtualBox (and one other package).
> Why I do not know.

The above suggests PID 1 is dead for some rason. What does "pstack 1"
as root print (with gdb installed)?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat