https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851993
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851993#c4
--- Comment #4 from Andrey Borzenkov
I can't actually enter emergency mode during a failed boot process; I see the msg advising to enter emergency mode, but can't get to it.
Yes, apparently something is wrong with emergency.service as well. Could you attach /usr/lib/systemd/system/emergency.service? And to be sure that you do not have some other screening it - "find /path/to/root -name emergency.service".
I can grab serial console output, if that's sufficient. Is it?
Yes; in this case add "systemd.log_target=console console=xxx" (with appropriate definition for your serial console).
And/or, I can boot, fail, reboot to a resuce disk, chroot to this env, and perhaps get at the system.journal that way.
Yes, as long as you have configured persistence journal. This was not default in 12.3 or 13.1. In this case you do not need chroot, just mount filesystem containing /var/log/journal and use "journalctl -D /path/to/var/log/journal -b".
What's preferred?
Well, journal may hold some extra output, so would be better to get it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.