Hi, I'm using Debian Stretch on a Thinkpad X220 and had the same issue. The advice from Ritesh Raj Sarraf worked for me too and I just registered to confirm this.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1726930 Title: System fails to start (boot) on battery due to read-only root file- system Status in laptop-mode-tools package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in systemd package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: This report is to capture the extended diagnostic efforts done on IRC #ubuntu for user maszlo, who has a Lenovo T450 with SSD that was upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10 and since fails to complete start-up of services when powered on battery. We'd previously applied the "acpi=os=! 'acpi_osi=Windows 2015'" workaround in case this was an ACPI DSDT issue. This appears to be due to a read-only root file-system. What is not clear is how the rootfs goes read-only. The file-system (sda6, ext4) is fsck-ed successfully in the initrd according to the /run/initramfs/fsck.log. From the start-up logs (with "systemd.log_level=debug") we see the ext4 driver report a remount operation not once but five times. $ grep 'EXT4-fs.*sda6' systemd-debug.log Oct 23 18:10:44 T450s kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Oct 23 18:10:44 T450s kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,data=ordered,commit=600 Oct 23 18:10:47 T450s kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,data=ordered,commit=600 Oct 23 18:10:48 T450s kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,data=ordered,commit=600 Oct 23 18:10:48 T450s kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,data=ordered,commit=600 Oct 23 18:10:49 T450s kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,data=ordered,commit=600 Those last five appear to be carrying options generated by laptop- mode-tools. User has disabled laptop-mode.service and laptop-mode.timer, and lmt- poll.service, but the issue remains. We see several reports of "read-only file-system": $ grep 'Read-only' systemd-debug.log Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s grub-common[1792]: grub-editenv: error: cannot open `/boot/grub/grubenv': Read-only file system. Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: colord.service: Failed to run 'start' task: Read-only file system Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s gpu-manager[1797]: Warning: writing to /var/log/gpu-manager.log failed (Read-only file system) Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: systemd-resolved.service: Failed to run 'start' task: Read-only file system Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: systemd-resolved.service: Failed to run 'start' task: Read-only file system Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s gdm3[1932]: Failed to create LogDir /var/log/gdm3: Read-only file system ... Oct 23 18:11:26 T450s cupsd[1461]: Unable to change ownership of "/var/log/cups" - Read-only file system Oct 23 18:11:26 T450s cupsd[1461]: Unable to open log file "/var/log/cups/access_log" - Read-only file system Oct 23 18:12:52 T450s login[9248]: pam_lastlog(login:session): unable to open /var/log/lastlog: Read-only file system We also see several problems with systemd's connection to Dbus: $ grep 'Transport endpoint' systemd-debug.log Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: Failed to send job change signal for 773: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: Failed to send unit change signal for systemd-logind.service: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: Failed to send job remove signal for 156: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: lmt-poll.service: Failed to send unit change signal for lmt-poll.service: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: Failed to send job remove signal for 182: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: Failed to send job remove signal for 95: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: polkit.service: Failed to send unit change signal for polkit.service: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: cups-browsed.service: Failed to send unit change signal for cups-browsed.service: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: Failed to send job change signal for 773: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: Failed to send job remove signal for 161: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 23 18:10:46 T450s systemd[1]: gdomap.service: Failed to send unit change signal for gdomap.service: Transport endpoint is not connected When the user purged laptop-mode-tools the system starts successfully on battery. The user installed a fresh instance of 17.10 on a 2nd M2 SSD. When laptop-mode-tools was added to that instance it also exhibited the failure. # apt-cache rdepends laptop-mode-tools laptop-mode-tools Reverse Depends: systemd tlp powertop-1.13 powertop # apt show systemd | grep Breaks Breaks: apparmor (<< 2.9.2-1), ifupdown (<< 0.8.5~), laptop-mode-tools (<< 1.68~), systemd-shim (<< 10-3~), udev (<< 228-5) # apt-cache policy laptop-mode-tools laptop-mode-tools: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.71-2ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/laptop-mode-tools/+bug/1726930/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
