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Re: Welcome to emergency mode!



On Mon 08 Feb 2016 at 16:27:47 -0700, 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?

An inability to read journalctl(1) and note the -n option.


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