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andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

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[Solved]Rsync clone does not boot - Failed to start Login Service

Hi, I made a rsync copy of my root partition and the dotfiles from the user's home directories using this script https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/ … vesynch.rb into another partition (/dev/sda3). The script is basically an extension of this wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu … with_rsync

I managed to chroot into my partition (/dev/sda3 a.k.a /mnt/lastboot), I managed to set up grub to boot from it but systemd does not seem to be able to start some services like the Login Service and Gnome Display Manager. Here is a picture of my screen http://imgur.com/vg0vdji

How can I troubleshoot this?
I want to see some logs to figure out why systemd does not start these services.

journalctl /usr/lib/systemd/systemd -b
No journal files were found.

journalctl -b
No journal files were found.

Any ideas?

Last edited by andreicristianpetcu (2014-04-17 10:42:09)

andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

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Re: [Solved]Rsync clone does not boot - Failed to start Login Service

Can I somehow switch to a root terminal when Login Service and Gnome Display Manager cannot start? Something like Alt+Control+F(some number)? How can mine I get more information from this issue? Thank you.

andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

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Re: [Solved]Rsync clone does not boot - Failed to start Login Service

For the sake of posterity:

I disabled systemd-logind and network manager and synched again so I pushed the modifications from my running OS to my OS rsync clone on /mnt/lastboot. I enabled again the two services and restarted.

When I booted, the two services were disable on the clone but enabled on the original system. I MANAGED TO LOGIN TO THE CLONE from /mnt/lastboot I still have to troubleshoot some more. I don't know why there are no journal files. If I run "journalctl" I get "No journal files were found."

andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved]Rsync clone does not boot - Failed to start Login Service

I did not manage to fix it BUT I found a workaround

I turned off both operating systems and I copied with "sudo cp -aR /mnt/origin /mnt/lastboot" and "sudo cp -aR /mnt/origin_home /mnt/lastboot/home". /mnt/origin is the "/" of the source ArchLinux and "/mnt/origin_home" is the "/home" of the same ArchLinux. After a full copy I booted in the source ArchLinux and I ran the script.

Now I have an ArchLinux that is fully up to date with Gnome Shell 3.12 and a bootable backup that is 7 days old still runnning Gnome Shell 3.10. Check out my project with sample fstabs
https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/lastboot

andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved]Rsync clone does not boot - Failed to start Login Service

Solved. Please check https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1399079