<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Michael Biebl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:biebl@debian.org" target="_blank">biebl@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">Am 19.03.2017 um 23:53 schrieb Michael Biebl:<br>
> Am 19.03.2017 um 22:03 schrieb Michael Biebl:<br>
><br>
>> If you can access the system via SSH, please attach the output of of<br>
>> systemctl list-jobs<br>
>> systemctl status<br>
>> journalctl -alb<br>
><br>
> My guess is, that this is related to logind. In stretch, wayland and<br>
> root-less Xorg require logind to set up the devices.<br>
> As logind is killed on systemctl isolate, the vt device is not properly<br>
> released.<br>
><br>
> Which is why I think the system should be accessible via SSH and does<br>
> not really "hang".<br>
><br>
> The journal log should provide more info though.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, the ssh service is killed, as it should be. Preexisting ssh sessions are left<br></div><div>alone, which is rather unexpected when invoking 'init 1', but helpful in this case!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Recall that sometimes, I'm left with a blank X desktop, and others a drawn but<br></div><div>non-functional rescue password prompt. The journal differs slightly: the lengthier<br></div><div>version from the former case is attached; in the latter case, the Xorg I/O errors<br></div><div>are absent, and the journal ends at this line (common to both):<br><br>Mar 19 19:48:05 stretch systemd[1178]: rescue.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth: No such file or directory<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">
</span>If you have SSH access, you can try another thing:<br>
systemctl start systemd-logind<br>
<br>
Does that give you back access to your tty?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, in both cases! As if the Xorg errors aren't relevant. Could it be the plymouth<br>error? The plymouth package wasn't installed by default; was it supposed to be?<br><br></div><div>Thank you!<br></div><div>-nd.<br></div></div></div></div>