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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On Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 at 3:47 AM, David N Murray
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