On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:54:56PM +0200, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > Hi, > > 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.
I had a similar problem after a recent sid upgrade. Normal booting lead to emergency mode. I was able to get to a GUI by going into the "Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux" grub sub-menu and selecting the sysvinit version of the kernel instead of the systemd default. I did have some very long pauses in the init sequence, but I finally got to a graphic login. It turns out the cause of the emergency mode was some cruft I had in my fstab file, specifically a line containing "none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0". Commenting this out cured the emergency mode problem. I'm not sure why this was in there in the first place, but a google search suggests it was some sort of kludge to get an ancient version of virtualbox to behave. hth dt -- Dave Thayer / Denver, Colorado USA / d...@thayer-boyle.com Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books. - Jack Handey "Deep Thoughts" -- 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/20150626033952.ga5...@thayer-boyle.com
