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No service starts after kernel upgrade

Linux Kernel, Network, and Services configuration.
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No service starts after kernel upgrade

#1 Post by sarpedon »

Good evening (night),

I have searched all over the web and I can't find a solution to my problem. I received an information of my VPS provider saying I should upgrade the kernel because of a hole in LTS version. So I checked different websites and I upgraded the kernel with jessie backports. And when I rebooted, all service were stopped. I was only able to connect with a special console. When I tried to launched for exemple ssh or nginx, it failed and got that error message :

INFO: task (plymouth):3580 blocked for more than 120 seconds
Not tainted + kernel version

I tried to load the old kernel and the same happens.

When I looked at the journalctl after startup, I got these error messages

piix4_smbus smbus host controller not enabled
intel_rapl : no valid rapl domains found in package 0
local-fs.target : dependency failes for Local File Systems

Service 1 has finished shutting down
Service 2 has finished shutting down
..... has finished shutting down

Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth : no such file or directory

I think it may be a problem with systemd or Grub but I didn't find a solution.

Thank you for your help if you have an idea.

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Re: No service starts after kernel upgrade

#2 Post by stevepusser »

Those websites you found on the web have it exactly backwards. Security fixes will be backported to the the standard Jessie 3.16 kernel sooner that to the jessie-backports kernel. In fact, the backports repo makes no guarantee that any of the packages there will get security fixes.
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Re: No service starts after kernel upgrade

#3 Post by sarpedon »

OK, so I just should have waited... Is there a solution ? I also seen that after each command trying to start a service, a "hangup" appears but on the same line of m'y command line.

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Re: No service starts after kernel upgrade

#4 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

A lot depends on the virtual hosting environment and you likely need a suitable kernel, not just a generic one.
Probably talking to your provider will be the best way forward.
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Re: No service starts after kernel upgrade

#5 Post by sarpedon »

The problem is that even when I boot on the old kernel, I have this problem. Some people are talking about swap partition. I will check that later.

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