i got the ppc64 version 250.3-1 of libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 systemd-timesync and systemd from snapshot.debian.org and installed them with dpkg -i and the system boots again
after apt upgrade to 250.3-2 on reboot the machine halts before it restarts systemd[1]: Caught <ABRT>, dumped core as pid 1293. systemd [1]: Freezing execution. after reboot same failure except with core dump failed On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 3:27 PM H <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > FWIW, A little bit information that might be helpful: > > I started journald manually via /lib/systemd/systemd-journald, no error > message to stdout and stderr, nor journalctl output. Actually journalctl > still does not work (empty for all services). > But the journald seemed started logging to /var/log/syslog. > When I try to start logind, /var/log/syslog captures the following error > message: > /lib/systemd/systemd-logind: error while loading shared libraries: > libsystemd-shared-250.so: failed to map segment from shared object. > > The file exists, clearly this is a broken binary from the port. > The filesystem is ext4. > > Thanks, > Hao > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:17 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2/1/22 23:11, H wrote: >> > Namely, systemd-journald and systemd-logind and some other less >> important >> > stuff. And, due to the fact that systemd-journald is unable to start, >> > journalctl -xn $service is empty for any services. >> >> It's a bit difficult to say what's wrong without any error messages. The >> cause >> might be unrelated to systemd and it's just the part of the system where >> the >> problem shows. >> >> Maybe problems with the filesystem or hardware? >> >> I have not observed any systemd issues on my PowerPC machines yet, but I >> will >> run a test installation tomorrow. >> >> Adrian >> >> -- >> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] >> `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] >> `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >> >>

