on booting, systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service is not started to break ordering cycle. As a consequence multiple other services are failing to start because their directories under /run/ have not been created. Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found dependency on systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found dependency on systemd-journal-flush.service/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found dependency on remote-fs.target/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found dependency on home-graham-wwofileserver-database.mount/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found dependency on network.target/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found dependency on NetworkManager-wait-online.service/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Found dependency on basic.target/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service/start Nov 04 12:46:00 gmdev systemd[1]: Job systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start # emerge --info systemd Portage 2.2.14 (python 3.4.2-final-0, hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.17.0-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.17.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4770K_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16128784 total, 13393832 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777212 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p30 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/perl: 5.20.1-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.7.8, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.2 dev-util/cmake: 3.0.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.3-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.17-r1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo x11 scrill ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -gdwarf-4 -fvar-tracking-assignments" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind /var/spool/munin-async/.ssh" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -gdwarf-4 -fvar-tracking-assignments" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg cgroup config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles installsources ipc-sandbox merge-sync network-sandbox news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/scrill" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avx avx2 berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cdda cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri eds emacs evo fam ffmpeg flac fontconfig gdbm git gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gstreamer gtk hardened iconv icu introspection ipv6 java jit jpeg justify kde kerberos libnotify lua mmx mng modules mp3 multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre perl png policykit postgres pulseaudio python qt4 readline semantic-desktop session sqlite sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg systemd tcpd theora threads truetype udev unicode urandom vala vorbis webkit xattr xml xmp xtpax zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ALSA_CARDS="hd-intel" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc efi-64 efi-32" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="wiki-publisher presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en_GB en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel ilo i915 i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.3" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/systemd-217 was built with the following: USE="acl elfutils gudev introspection kmod pam policykit python seccomp ssl -apparmor -audit -cryptsetup -curl -doc -gcrypt -http -idn (-kdbus) -lz4 -lzma -qrcode (-selinux) -terminal -test -vanilla" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_2 -python3_3 -python3_4" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 python3_4 -python3_2"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 527894 ***
