Failed to start Login Service on vanilla Jessie Lite

[_Mark_]

I've just did the following (twice)

• download 2016-03-18-raspian-jessie-lite.zip
  unzip
  burn the SD card using Win32DiskImager
  power up my RPi3

After several seconds I get the error "Failed to start Login Service" and "see 'systemctl status system-logind.service' for details".
I'm surprised because it's a vanilla image, I did nothing yet to it. Just downloaded and burned.
Of course, I'm sure it MUST work, so... any idea about?

I Googled but I found several threads talking about upgrades or other tweaks. None applies here.

[McGooch]

Not sure if resizing the partitions will help in your case but this resolved the problem for me. But I would have expected this to not be so tight in the lite case.

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=145547&p=959920#p959920

[_Mark_]

Interesting - I will try when I need it again.
Anyway they should let the users to boot one time to expand partitions!

[DirkS]

It's very unlikely that insufficient disk space was the cause of the problem here.
Jessie Lite should have sufficient space for the first boot to succeed (and a bit more) otherwise everyone would have problems with that image...

[_Mark_]

I agree with you, DirkS, but do you have any other idea on what else might cause this issue?

[DirkS]

I agree with you, DirkS, but do you have any other idea on what else might cause this issue?

The only thing I can think of is an issue with the SD card.
You could try to do a full write / read cycle to see if there is a problem (e.g. using http://www.heise.de/download/h2testw.html on Windows)

[Fallon]

Getting the same issue here on a Fresh download, clean install to a 32gb micro SD on my Pi 2. "failed to start login service"

[Fallon]

Getting the same issue here on a Fresh download, clean install to a 32gb micro SD on my Pi 2. "failed to start login service"

Odd, moved the SD card to my other Pi & it booted fine. Both 2bs v1.1