On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:53:33PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> on one of my server machines, suddenly many systemd units (e.g. cron, autofs)
> do not start any more, neither at boot nor when trying to start manually
> with "systemctl start <unit>", this hangs till I abort with Ctrl-C -

> Does anyone have an idea what is possibly wrong?

Look for more information.  Start with

systemctl status cron
journalctl -u cron

Just on general principle, it wouldn't hurt to look at the output of
dmesg as well, to see if the kernel is complaining.  And df, to see
whether any file systems are full or nonresponsive.

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