[systemd-devel] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out

[Michael Chapman]

On Mon, 18 May 2020, Debraj Manna wrote:
> Around the same time I am seeing the below error in syslog
> 
> May 18 08:49:24 platform3 systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of support.
> May 18 08:49:27 platform3 systemd[1]: Assertion 's->type ==
> SERVICE_ONESHOT' failed at ../src/core/service.c:1792, function
> service_enter_start(). Aborting.
> May 18 08:49:27 platform3 systemd[1]: Caught <ABRT>, dumped core as pid 15839.
> May 18 08:49:27 platform3 systemd[1]: Freezing execution.

This bug (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4444) was fixed in 
systemd v236.

See if you can use a newer version of systemd.