accounts-daemon.service fails during bootup

hnasr2001 · 03-11-2021, 07:52 AM

Hello;

OS - Centos 7

During boot, I am getting a black page. When I use Ctl-Alt F2 and log in as root and run systemctl, I see an error on accounts-daemon.service

What could be the reason? I updated all the packages disabled the accounts service, no changes.

dc.901 · 03-11-2021, 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hnasr2001

When I use Ctl-Alt F2 and log in as root and run systemctl, I see an error on accounts-daemon.service

What could be the reason? I updated all the packages disabled the accounts service, no changes.

It will be helpful if you can tell us what exact "systemctl" command you ran?
And, what is the exact error or "accounts-daemon.service"

hnasr2001 · 03-11-2021, 08:05 AM

I ran "systemctl" with no argument.

The error message accouts.daemon.service "failed"

I looked at the /var/boot.log, the same error with no extra explanation on this error.

dc.901 · 03-11-2021, 08:17 AM

If you run "dmesg" does it report anything unusual?

As for "black screen"...
What is output of:

Code:

systemctl get-default

If you run following, do you get desktop environment:

Code:

systemctl isolate graphical.target

Is this a VM or a physical machine?

hnasr2001 · 03-11-2021, 08:27 AM

I ran "systemctl get-default" and the output was "graphical.target".
I ran systemctl isolate graphical.target and the output was "dracut:dracut: creation of /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-1160.15.2.e17.x86kdump.img failed"

ran dracut -fv --regenerate-all. Ran again isolate graphical.target, no output error this time.
ran systemctl status graphical.targer, came with "Active" status.

dc.901 · 03-11-2021, 09:18 AM

Well, 1st thing to check is does the machine have enough disk space?
Does it tell you why it failed? For example, operation not permitted or something else?

And in your original post you said:

Quote:

Originally Posted by hnasr2001

During boot, I am getting a black page.
.....
I updated all the packages disabled the accounts service, no changes.

What was changed prior to boot? Installed updates?

hnasr2001 · 03-11-2021, 03:45 PM

No change before this happened although I don't remember how did I turn the system off.

When I change it to runlevel3, it works without error so I can back it up and reinstall OS again.