Hi all,
I ran a `pacman -Syu` yesterday and when I boot, I'm greeted with:
Failed to start Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
The relevant portion of journalctl:
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Starting Set Up Additional Binary
Formats...
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Update Boot Loader Random Seed was
skipped because no trigger condition checks were met.
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and
Directories...
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount: Got
automount request for /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc, triggered by 429
(systemd-binfmt)
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found ordering cycle
on systemd-vconsole-setup.service/start
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on
sysinit.target/start
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Unable to break cycle
starting with sysinit.target/start
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Requested transaction contains an
unfixable cyclic ordering dependency: Transaction order is cyclic. See
system logs for details.
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount:
Failed to queue mount startup job: Transaction order is cyclic. See
system logs for details.
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount:
Failed with result 'resources'.
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd-binfmt[429]: Failed to check if
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is mounted: Host is down
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Main process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Failed with
result 'exit-code'.
Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Failed to start Set Up Additional
Binary Formats.
I tried `systemd-analyze verify sysinit.target
proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount systemd-vconsole-setup.service` and
it reported the same messages. systemd-vconsole-setup.service is the
culprit. Since vconsole-setup isn't run, I can't login. Removing
vconsole.conf had no effect. vconsole-setup is invoked by udevd, so
I can't disable it (not that I want to). No other services appear to
start after this failure (like lightdm).
I'm stumped. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
TIA,
Dave
