{Solved} Can not successfully boot into systemd

Question

I will first start off by saying I have read though the following threads:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151633
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151885
And have tried to follow the Systemd wiki.  I started out by switching to the new initscripts configuration system.  I have the current systemd package installed.  I then installed systemd-sysvcompat which of course had me remove sysvinit.  I then removed initscripts which moved my rc.conf to rc.conf.pacsave.
I had to manually create /etc/hostname, /etc/locale.conf, and /etc/vconsole.conf as (mentioned in a previous post) I could not do with any "ctl" commands as I had not yet booted into a systemd setup.
This also caused an issue with trying to set up the timezone as:
# timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
resulted in:
Failed to issue method call: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
So at this point I decided to try a reboot and I get:
Welcome to emergency mode! Type "systemctl defualt" or ^D to enter default mode.
Type "journelctl -b" to view system logs. Type "systemctl reboot" to reboot.
Give root password for maintenance
(or typed Control-D to continue): [ 71.520184] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware
"radeon/R300_cp.bin"
[ 71.520205] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* failed to load firmware!
[ 71.520224] radeon 0000:01:05.0: failed initializing CP (-2)
[ 71.520237] radeon 0000:01:05.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
I entered emergency mode which brought me to the root terminal.  I first attempted to mv rc.conf.pacnew to rc.conf expecting there to possibly be an issue with the daemons I had running or attempted to run but after reboot I got the same thing.  Not sure what is going on with the radeon firmware because it's obviously there.
So I re-imaged the hard drive and decided to try again.  This time I installed systemd-sysvcompat (removing sysvinit) and DID NOT remove initscripts.  I rebooted and got the exact same thing as above. So at this point I am at a loss of ideas with moving forward.  Why is systemd-sysvcompat causing the failure of the radeon firmware to load? I use Arch on my laptop, desktop as well as my server.  Systemd is coming so I am trying with the laptop first to convert to pure systemd.  If I am just missing a step please let me know and I appologize for posting.  But hopefully others have run into this issue and could possibly give me a nudge in the right direction.  It could be I am reading the wiki wrong or just not interpreting it correctly.
Thanks in advance for your guidance and assistance,
All the best,
Ian
Last edited by ichase (2012-11-16 16:55:10)

Answer 1

hiciu,
Here is what you requested taken from emergency mode:
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run. Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array. For instance:
# MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
MODULES=""
# BINARIES
# This setting includes any additional binaries a given user may
# wish into the CPIO image. This is run last, so it may be used to
# override the actual binaries included by a given hook
# BINARIES are dependency parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""
# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in any way. This is useful for config files.
# Some users may wish to include modprobe.conf for custom module options
# like so:
# FILES="/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf"
FILES=""
# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file. The HOOKS control the
# modules and scripts added to the image, and what happens at boot time.
# Order is important, and it is recommended that you do not change the
# order in which HOOKS are added. Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
# help on a given hook.
# 'base' is _required_ unless you know precisely what you are doing.
# 'udev' is _required_ in order to automatically load modules
# 'filesystems' is _required_ unless you specify your fs modules in MODULES
# Examples:
## This setup specifies all modules in the MODULES setting above.
## No raid, lvm2, or encrypted root is needed.
# HOOKS="base"
## This setup will autodetect all modules for your system and should
## work as a sane default
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"
## This is identical to the above, except the old ide subsystem is
## used for IDE devices instead of the new pata subsystem.
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide scsi sata filesystems"
## This setup will generate a 'full' image which supports most systems.
## No autodetection is done.
# HOOKS="base udev pata scsi sata usb filesystems"
## This setup assembles a pata mdadm array with an encrypted root FS.
## Note: See 'mkinitcpio -H mdadm' for more information on raid devices.
# HOOKS="base udev pata mdadm encrypt filesystems"
## This setup loads an lvm2 volume group on a usb device.
# HOOKS="base udev usb lvm2 filesystems"
## NOTE: If you have /usr on a separate partition, you MUST include the
# usr, fsck and shutdown hooks.
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems usbinput fsck"
# COMPRESSION
# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gzip compression
# is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
#COMPRESSION="xz"
#COMPRESSION="lzop"
# COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
# Additional options for the compressor
#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=""
The next items due to length are linked to pastebin;
bsdtar -t -f /boot/initramfs-linux.img
http://pastebin.com/cZEJHVHm
dmesg
http://pastebin.com/MUGs1e9H
journalctl -b
http://pastebin.com/xgbfVJP8
This is a lot to look at so do know that I am very appreciative of you and any one else looking at these files taking your time to help me with this issue.
All the best,
Ian
Edit:  I also wanted to mention that I was able to get rid of the syslog-ng errors previously mentioned by performing:
systemctl enable syslog-ng.service
Then rebooting.  Granted I was still put back in emergency mode but was able to fix one issue.
Last edited by ichase (2012-11-16 03:33:41)