[Bug 1636503] Re: recovery mode gets borked after some time out

[jas mann]

I experience the same issue as OP after a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04
4.4.0-72.

Nothing can be done in recovery mode that takes longer than one minute,
otherwise some timeout fires, console spews several screens of messages
indicating processes being stopped, and it loops back into the recovery
mode menu; however now there is no keyboard or at least no keys respond
other than ESC, thus no way to navigate the menu even if were now
operable.

Hitting the ESC key at this point causes the following text to overwrite the first menu option:
  "sulogin: input overrun at /dev/tty1t"
But perhaps that is just an artifact of the unwanted and unrequested shutdown of system daemons.

Nothing more can be done at this point, a hard reboot is necessary.

This is repeatable, i.e. the same symptoms occur at each entry to
recovery mode.

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Title:
  recovery mode gets borked after some time out

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  (Linux mint 18 / Xenial)

  after booting in recovery mode from grub.
  If you just wait 30-60seconds, a new stream of messages appear and something gets messed up, you can't use recovery mode any more, you have to do a hard reboot.

  You don't need to do something in particular for this to happen,
  simply some time out occurs.

  -------------------

  more precisely, one of the messages say(copied manually):

  "[FAILED] Failed to start Console System on Startup logging.
  see 'systemctl status console-kit-log-system-start.service' for more details.

  It seams, it tries to launch a second recovery mode on top of the
  previous one after the error.

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  I confirm, this is happening on both my PC linux mint 18 64bits,
  laptop linux mint 18 32bits and some one else from a forum on a
  ThinkPad X201 with Mint 18 KDE 64-bit.

  On my systems, both are fully up to date, 32 and 64 bit. Kernels don't
  seam to change anything.

  systemd version 229-4ubuntu11

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