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