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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, the journal is full of errors due to "read-only file system". I
don't really see an error why that is (systemd-remount-fs.service
succeeded), except perhaps this one:

Mar 13 14:41:27 Vasco-netbook systemd[1]: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or
not pointing to /proc/self/mounts. This is not supported anymore. Please
make sure to replace this file by a symlink to avoid incorrect or
misleading mount(8) output.

and debian-fixup.service which is supposed to fix that doesn't work
because it's readonly:

Mar 13 14:41:28 Vasco-netbook debian-fixup[230]: ln: cannot remove ‘/etc/mtab’: Read-only file system
Mar 13 14:41:28 Vasco-netbook systemd[1]: debian-fixup.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

So in the debug shell, can you please do the following:

  * Verify that the root partition is read-only; something like "touch /test" should fail with "read-only file system".
  * run "mount -o remount,rw /" ; does that work, i. e. can you run "touch /test" after that? If so, "rm /test" again.
  * If mounting rw works, please do "mv /etc/mtab /etc/mtab.old; ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab", and see if that cures things?

Thanks!

** Summary changed:

- Kubuntu 15.04 Beta1 hangs at starting 219 after update
+ fails to boot due to read-ony file system

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Title:
  fails to boot due to read-ony file system

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have just recently done a sudo apt-get upgrade, noting something about an included 219 update -- after consequent reboot, the system now hangs at starting 219. No light on Caps Lock. I have since been using upstart. 
  Kernel using - I am on: Linux kubuntu 3.19.0-9-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 11 17:50:03 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux  
  Same error when I try the 3.19.0.7-generic kernel.
  I have updated Grub, no change.

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