Have you changed the default units? Can you upload the output of
systemctl cat sysinit.target proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount systemd-vconsole-setup.service
and
systemd-analyze dot sysinit.target proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount systemd-vconsole-setup.service
If you are using chroot and systemctl and systemd-analyze complains "System has
not been booted with systemd as init system", try systemd-nspawn from host.
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Paul M. Ärloch
Debes praebere lingvam scriptvm vt hanc paginam inspicias.
------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 at 3:47 AM, David N Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
