On 2015-06-25 13:54 +0200, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > I'm running unstable / sid. Yesterday, I suddenly started booting into > emergency mode and I'm unsure why. I had a hang the day before, right after > a apt-get dist-upgrade, so it might be either one of those, or something > else altogether. > > Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither login without > a root password,
It seems this functionality got lost when sulogin(8) was moved from sysvinit-utils to util-linux. I have just opened a bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789950. > nor continue to default mode with Ctrl-D because that just > throws me back into emergency mode. > > I'm rather stuck on how to analyze the situation. I can mount and even > chroot into the '/' partition from a live CD (LMDE 2) and even run apt-get > update && apt-get upgrade, but the boot problem persists. I can also boot > with init=/bin/sh, but I don't know what to look for. > > Any ideas on what I should try? Any help is much appreciated. After booting with init=/bin/sh, set a root password and boot normally (e.g. run "exec /lib/systemd/systemd"), then you should be able to log in in emergency mode and debug the situation ("systemctl --failed" would be first thing I'd try). After the situation is remedied, you make lock the root account again with "sudo passwd -l root". Good luck, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/877fqrx22g....@turtle.gmx.de
