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Re: [LUG] Problems with debian testing - cannot boot. ii

 

On 26/10/2020 19:37, comrade meowski wrote:
> On 26/10/2020 19:22, Henry Bremridge wrote:
>>
>>> Running sysrescue from usb
>>>
>> I can see all files, (I have a separate partition for home)
>
> Unless you're very familiar with working on chrooted systems to repair
> them you'll be better off initially returning to letting the system
> (fail to) boot under it's own power again. When you reach the
> emergency shell give it the root password to login and commence
> information gathering.
>
> Having a look at the output of:
>
> systemctl --failed

  UNIT        LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION       
● vdr.service loaded failed failed Video Disk Recorder

LOAD   = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB    = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

1 loaded units listed.


> journalctl -p err -b

$ journalctl -p err -b
Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
      Users in groups 'adm', 'systemd-journal' can see all messages.
      Pass -q to turn off this notice.
-- Logs begin at Sun 2020-02-23 07:45:04 GMT, end at Mon 2020-10-26
19:41:04 GMT. --
-- No entries --


>
> Will be helpful.
>
> The obvious conclusion is that something other than the inadvertent
> Fn+Del sequence has caused this so cast your mind back over the
> previous session before this happened. Did your run any system updates
> or change any settings?
>
> Somewhere a systemd unit file is failing to start up during boot and
> it's significant enough that it's stopping the system reaching it's
> default target. The output of the above two commands should be
> sufficient to figure out what. Post it here if you can't figure it out.
>
Booted in kernel 4.16, seems to have fixed it. Running back up again

Thankyou


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