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OCI - Unable to Login to Linux Instance With Error “[FAILED] Failed to start Login Service"

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64

Symptoms:

Linux Boot failed to complete and unable to login into the Linux instance via SSH and serial console.

Below error messages are seen on the serial console:

[FAILED] Failed to start Login Service.
 See 'systemctl status systemd-logind.service' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to start Network Service.
 See 'systemctl status systemd-networkd.service' for details.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Wait for Network to be Configured.

When booted into single user mode, following messages can be seen in /var/log/messages:


 2023-03-07T03:13:41.604509+00:00 localhost systemd:err: Failed to start Network Service.
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.606421+00:00 localhost systemd:notice: Unit systemd-networkd.service entered failed state.
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.606640+00:00 localhost systemd:warning: systemd-networkd.service failed.
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.606854+00:00 localhost systemd:info: systemd-networkd.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.607102+00:00 localhost systemd:info: systemd-logind.service has no holff time, scheduling restart.
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.607319+00:00 localhost systemd:info: Stopped Login Service.
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.609815+00:00 localhost systemd:info: Starting Login Service...
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.610212+00:00 localhost systemd:info: Stopped Network Service.
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.612976+00:00 localhost systemd-logind:err: Failed to connect to system bus: Resource temporarily unavailable
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.613196+00:00 localhost systemd-logind:err: Failed to fully start up daemon: Resource temporarily unavailable
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.613409+00:00 localhost systemd:info: Starting Network Service...
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.615641+00:00 localhost systemd:notice: systemd-logind.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
 2023-03-07T03:13:41.615878+00:00

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