How can I fix? Systems says "Host is down" and will not boot

Question

After reboot, Debian GNOME desktop starts up automatically, in tty. When I try to start or stop services with systemctl this message appears.

System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus. Host is down.

I cannot boot my system normally. With startx is appears on a server desktop.

Solution

RIP systemd.

Use service instead. type in

# service --status-all

and see if it is functional. Then do all of your above commands using service syntax and you should be functional.

Once you are running normally, take some time and dig into why systemd is not functioning properly.

Comments

[sotiris]

I did all of this but I have the same problem.