[Gta04-owner] Debian Jessie on GTA04

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,
I am trying to make Debian Jessie (because it is now "almost stable”) run on the GTA04.

To get it I used the bootstrap tool [1] we have on our wheezy system to get a fresh rootfs and merged our 3.18.0 kernel+modules.

The system boots to a console (without login!). And after apt-get openssh-server I can even ssh into the GTA04.

But I have problems to get the systemd run properly.

The key symptom is
[   14.480712] systemd-update-utmp[1402]: Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory
[   15.407958] systemd[1354]: Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth: No such file or directory
[   15.924438] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   16.170410] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   16.219970] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   17.234588] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   17.305603] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   17.365386] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   17.403839] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   17.424804] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   17.446258] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.150482] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.311523] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.372406] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.423492] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.481750] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.507293] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.531219] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.547668] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.569580] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.599334] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.854309] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.881835] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.898162] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.915344] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   24.931701] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   25.384979] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   25.543670] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   59.930755] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   67.187499] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   67.202758] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
[   67.210510] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   67.226593] systemd-journald[939]: Received SIGTERM from PID 1 (systemd).
[   67.237731] systemd-journald[939]: Failed to rotate /run/log/journal/f3be05d3555146cfaf346d194a08336d/system.journal: No such file or directory
[   67.283477] systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered failed state.
[   67.301147] systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
[   67.311065] systemd[1]: Stopping Journal Service...
[   67.317718] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
[   67.344177] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
[   67.365356] systemd[1]: Starting Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage...
[   67.485595] systemd[1]: systemd-journal-flush.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
[   67.526092] systemd[1]: Failed to start Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage.

The last handful of lines repeats every 30 seconds.

It is even impossible to debug that:

root at gta04:~# systemctl --state=failed
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1
root at gta04:~#   

Is someone already using systemd? And/or has experience in administration?

BR,
Nikolaus


[1]: http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-rootfs.git;a=blob;f=config/root/bootstrap;hb=HEAD