If after emergency service had been started there is incoming traffic on syslog.socket emergency.service gets killed due to implicit dependencies on basic.target => sysinit.target which in turn conflict with emergency.target. As a workaround explicitly stop syslog.socket when entering emergency.service. Reference: bnc#852232 --- units/emergency.service.in | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: systemd-221/units/emergency.service.in =================================================================== --- systemd-221.orig/units/emergency.service.in +++ systemd-221/units/emergency.service.in @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Documentation=man:sulogin(8) DefaultDependencies=no Conflicts=shutdown.target Conflicts=rescue.service +Conflicts=syslog.socket Before=shutdown.target [Service]