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My Pi2 is not booting anymore after upgrade to Jessie (using the standard apt-get route).

During boot I get a bunch of messages, the first one is the "A start job is running for dev-mmcpblk01p1.device", which takes about 90 seconds. Then I get messages like

[FAILED] Failed to start Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage [FAILED] Failed to start Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Update UTMP about System Runlevel Change

How can I repair this? I have never worked with systemd before.

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    Do you have another Linux box? I'd put that SD card in another box and do a file system check if you can. Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 12:31
  • I don't think this has anything to do with the filesystem... I think this is more some problem with the new systemd. Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 14:05
  • otherwise this is another possible solution: had the same problem and solved it thanks to your suggestion. it seems there is a problem with the new systemd in jessie and handling raid / tmpfs. cause i wanted to use tmpfs, i switched back to sysvinit like described here: sohcahtoa.org.uk/osd.html - so thats a second way. if sb. finds out what exactly the problem is and how to solve with systemd, i would be great, if you could post it here, Commented Feb 27, 2017 at 12:16

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It seems the problem was caused by me. I was using tmpfs for several directories under /var, to prevend Plex Media Server from spamming my SD-card full of useless logs.

After commenting out the tmpfs sections in my /etc/fstab, everything was fine again.

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  • As a note: I still wonder why systemd doesn't play well with tmpfs...? Will have to investigate further. Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 14:14
  • systemd plays okay with my RAM disc. Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 17:19
  • Yeah, I have to figure out some other time why this broke everything. Will report back with a solution when I have one. Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 20:09

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