Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 08/02/16 06:27 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:32:43AM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > On Mon 11 Jan 2016 at 00:51:24 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:40:28 -0500, Gary wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 10/01/16 07:15 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> > > > > After solving all my mount problems and changing from dynamic to
> > > > There are lots of things that can go wrong, but if you had been booting
> > > > normally, it's likely something you've done since the initial install.
> > >
> > > I could solve this in twenty minutes with a re-install. Really, this
> > > is a brand-new do-nothing-as-yet test-bed system. No users will be
> > > harmed by this process :-) If I'm not giving you all enough useful
> > > info about what's wrong, and I'm sure I'm not, just say so and I'll do
> > > it first thing in the morning.
> >
> > Access the systemd journal with 'journalctl'. If you are being thrown
> > into emergency mode there must be something seriously wrong. Lines of
> > priority ERROR and higher are colored red.
>
> As root journalctl produces a long list, tail journalctl produces
>
> "tail: cannot open ‘journalctl’ for reading: No such file or directory".
>
> Now I'm really confused. Any explanation?

  I belive tail is designed for use with text files...which systemd 
journal isn't.