Looks like I sent this a bit early.  It looks as if it is a known issue: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1959 --  Michael Dahlberg On November 27, 2015 at 8:52:21 PM, Michael Dahlberg (olgamirth@gmail.com) wrote: I just upgraded my archlinux system and with it I upgraded systemd from version 227-1 to 228-3.  Now when the system reboots I get stuck at a start job running “Create Volatile Files and Directories” and since it looks as if there is no timeout limit my system just sits there trying to run this service. I’ve checked my /var partition and it is mounted with the acl option and it looks as if the /var/log/journal directory does have all attributes.   Any suggestions? Thanks. --  Michael Dahlberg