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Yesterday while I was installing updates on Fedora 24 I powered off my machine by mistake. When I restarted, I got the error message
Failed to start logind.service Failed to start accountd.service
and few other services and the login prompt/GUI never got loaded.
I tried to login in single user mode and when I ran
systemctl status systemd-logind.service
the message pointed that it has not loaded the service
When I ran journalctl systemd-logind.service no entries printed out.
startx or even systemctl start systemd-logind.service or accountd.service, none of these commands are working.
I could not power off as the shutdown command was also not found.
Any pointers to recover the system is much appreciated.
Paddy Mahadeva
Posted 2016-11-01T10:27:00.933
Reputation: 13
When the system first starts, there should be a GRUB menu for a second. That should include a "rescue mode" option. Does that work? – mattdm – 2016-11-01T13:39:50.107
Oh, I see that you can get to single-user mode. From there, can activate a network connection? – mattdm – 2016-11-03T12:33:51.473
Nopes. I could not. I tried to look up the network. I got only as far as seeing my wirless harware and drivers. When I assign it to my network or try to search for available networks. No result. Finally after 2 days I gave up and re installed my OS. Lost all data, but fortunately had backed up some of it! – Paddy Mahadeva – 2016-11-05T07:44:08.493
Did you try the rescue mode? – mattdm – 2016-11-05T13:55:03.203