Bug#926603: Debian fails to start after installation into Virtualbox

[Andy Ruddock]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 01:10:28 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>>
>> Am 07.04.19 um 18:51 schrieb Andy Ruddock:
>>> Package: systemd
>>> Severity: critical
>>>
>>> I'm running Windows 10 (Home edition - up to date) on the desktop, with
>>> Virtualbox (v6.0.4).
>>> I've used both the netinst CD & the testing DVD (downloaded today -
>>> 07/Apr/2019) to install Buster.
>>> After installation the system fails to start with many errors.
>>> The first is :
>>>
>>> systemd[1]: user.slice: Failed to set inovcation ID for unit: File
>>> exists
>>> [FAILED]: Failed to start User and Session Slice.
>>>
>>> other services then fail to start :
>>>
>>> [FAILED] Failed to start Slices.
>>> [FAILED] Failed to listen on udev Kernel Socket.
>>> [FAILED] Failed to start Remote File Systems.
>>> [FAILED] Failed to listen on Syslog Socket.
>>>
>>> and many more, followed by
>>>
>>> systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/2cb....
>>>
>>> finally
>>>
>>> [FAILED] Failed to start Network.
>>>
>>> At which point there is no more, the system just halts.
>>>
>>> Starting with "quiet" removed from linux invocation in grub, I see
>>>
>>> systemd[1]: systemd 241 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX
>>> +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS
>>> +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2
>>> default-hierarchy=hybrid)
>>> systemd[1]: Detected virtualization oracle.
>>> systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64.
>>>
>>> Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux buser/sid!
>>
>> Please follow the instructions at
>> https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/ and get us a
>> verbose debug log from the complete boot.
>> Please also attach the output of "reportbug --template systemd" on the
>> affected system.
> 
> Any updates here? Can you provide the requested information`

Sorry for the delay - busy with work.

Tried to get a serial terminal connection with the installation and
failed. Since this bug was filed there has been a new release of
VirtualBox and a new release of Debian testing.
The issue doesn't appear with the new release of testing on the updated
version of VirtualBox.

As far as I'm concerned the bug can be closed.

Many thanks for the assistance.

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Andy Ruddock
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