Systemd-remount-fs.service failed to start

when i boot my fedora 42 silerblue some services failed to start

$ systemctl list-units --type=service --state=inactive --state=failed
  UNIT                                       LOAD      ACTIVE   SUB    DESCRIPTION                                                      
  alsa-state.service                         loaded    inactive dead   Manage Sound Card State (restore and store)
  audit-rules.service                        loaded    inactive dead   Load Audit Rules
  auth-rpcgss-module.service                 loaded    inactive dead   Kernel Module supporting RPCSEC_GSS
● auto-cpufreq.service                       not-found inactive dead   auto-cpufreq.service
● cpupower.service                           not-found inactive dead   cpupower.service
  dm-event.service                           loaded    inactive dead   Device-mapper event daemon
  dracut-cmdline.service                     loaded    inactive dead   dracut cmdline hook
  dracut-initqueue.service                   loaded    inactive dead   dracut initqueue hook
  dracut-mount.service                       loaded    inactive dead   dracut mount hook
  dracut-pre-mount.service                   loaded    inactive dead   dracut pre-mount hook
  dracut-pre-pivot.service                   loaded    inactive dead   dracut pre-pivot and cleanup hook
  dracut-pre-trigger.service                 loaded    inactive dead   dracut pre-trigger hook
  dracut-pre-udev.service                    loaded    inactive dead   dracut pre-udev hook
  dracut-shutdown-onfailure.service          loaded    inactive dead   Service executing upon dracut-shutdown failure to perform cleanup
● ebtables.service                           not-found inactive dead   ebtables.service
  emergency.service                          loaded    inactive dead   Emergency Shell
  fips-crypto-policy-overlay.service         loaded    inactive dead   Bind-mount FIPS crypto-policy in FIPS mode
  flatpak-add-fedora-repos.service           loaded    inactive dead   Add Fedora flatpak repositories
  flatpak-system-helper.service              loaded    inactive dead   flatpak system helper
  fstrim.service                             loaded    inactive dead   Discard unused blocks on filesystems from /etc/fstab
  getty@tty1.service                         loaded    inactive dead   Getty on tty1
  grub2-systemd-integration.service          loaded    inactive dead   Grub2 systemctl reboot --boot-loader-menu=... support
  initrd-cleanup.service                     loaded    inactive dead   Cleaning Up and Shutting Down Daemons
  initrd-parse-etc.service                   loaded    inactive dead   Mountpoints Configured in the Real Root
  initrd-switch-root.service                 loaded    inactive dead   Switch Root
  initrd-udevadm-cleanup-db.service          loaded    inactive dead   Cleanup udev Database
● ip6tables.service                          not-found inactive dead   ip6tables.service
● ipset.service                              not-found inactive dead   ipset.service
● iptables.service                           not-found inactive dead   iptables.service
  ldconfig.service                           loaded    inactive dead   Rebuild Dynamic Linker Cache
  logrotate.service                          loaded    inactive dead   Rotate log files
  lvm2-lvmpolld.service                      loaded    inactive dead   LVM2 poll daemon
  mcelog.service                             loaded    inactive dead   Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon
  mdmonitor.service                          loaded    inactive dead   Software RAID monitoring and management
● mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service not-found inactive dead   mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service
  modprobe@configfs.service                  loaded    inactive dead   Load Kernel Module configfs
  modprobe@dm_mod.service                    loaded    inactive dead   Load Kernel Module dm_mod
  modprobe@drm.service                       loaded    inactive dead   Load Kernel Module drm
  modprobe@efi_pstore.service                loaded    inactive dead   Load Kernel Module efi_pstore
  modprobe@fuse.service                      loaded    inactive dead   Load Kernel Module fuse
  modprobe@loop.service                      loaded    inactive dead   Load Kernel Module loop
  modprobe@sd_mod.service                    loaded    inactive dead   Load Kernel Module sd_mod
  nfs-idmapd.service                         loaded    inactive dead   NFSv4 ID-name mapping service
  nfs-mountd.service                         loaded    inactive dead   NFS Mount Daemon
  nfs-server.service                         loaded    inactive dead   NFS server and services
  nfs-utils.service                          loaded    inactive dead   NFS server and client services
  nfsdcld.service                            loaded    inactive dead   NFSv4 Client Tracking Daemon
● nslcd.service                              not-found inactive dead   nslcd.service
● ntpd.service                               not-found inactive dead   ntpd.service
● ntpdate.service                            not-found inactive dead   ntpdate.service
  ostree-boot-complete.service               loaded    inactive dead   OSTree Complete Boot
  ostree-finalize-staged-hold.service        loaded    inactive dead   Hold /boot Open for OSTree Finalize Staged Deployment
  ostree-finalize-staged.service             loaded    inactive dead   OSTree Finalize Staged Deployment
  plocate-updatedb.service                   loaded    inactive dead   Update the plocate database
  plymouth-halt.service                      loaded    inactive dead   Show Plymouth Halt Screen
  plymouth-kexec.service                     loaded    inactive dead   Show Plymouth Reboot with kexec Screen
  plymouth-poweroff.service                  loaded    inactive dead   Show Plymouth Power Off Screen
  plymouth-quit.service                      loaded    inactive dead   Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen
  plymouth-reboot.service                    loaded    inactive dead   Show Plymouth Reboot Screen
  plymouth-switch-root-initramfs.service     loaded    inactive dead   Tell Plymouth To Jump To initramfs
  plymouth-switch-root.service               loaded    inactive dead   Plymouth switch root service
● power-profiles-daemon.service              not-found inactive dead   power-profiles-daemon.service
  raid-check.service                         loaded    inactive dead   RAID setup health check
  rc-local.service                           loaded    inactive dead   /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility
  rescue.service                             loaded    inactive dead   Rescue Shell
  rpc-gssd.service                           loaded    inactive dead   RPC security service for NFS client and server
  rpc-statd.service                          loaded    inactive dead   NFS status monitor for NFSv2/3 locking.
● rpc-svcgssd.service                        not-found inactive dead   rpc-svcgssd.service
  rpcbind.service                            loaded    inactive dead   RPC Bind
  rpm-ostree-countme.service                 loaded    inactive dead   Weekly rpm-ostree Count Me reporting
  rpm-ostree-fix-shadow-mode.service         loaded    inactive dead   Update permissions for /etc/shadow
  rpmdb-rebuild.service                      loaded    inactive dead   RPM database rebuild
  selinux-autorelabel-mark.service           loaded    inactive dead   Mark the need to relabel after reboot
● sntp.service                               not-found inactive dead   sntp.service
  sssd.service                               loaded    inactive dead   System Security Services Daemon
● syslog.service                             not-found inactive dead   syslog.service
  systemd-ask-password-console.service       loaded    inactive dead   Dispatch Password Requests to Console
  systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service      loaded    inactive dead   Forward Password Requests to Plymouth
  systemd-ask-password-wall.service          loaded    inactive dead   Forward Password Requests to Wall
  systemd-battery-check.service              loaded    inactive dead   Check battery level during early boot
  systemd-boot-random-seed.service           loaded    inactive dead   Update Boot Loader Random Seed
  systemd-bsod.service                       loaded    inactive dead   Display Boot-Time Emergency Messages In Full Screen
  systemd-confext.service                    loaded    inactive dead   Merge System Configuration Images into /etc/
  systemd-firstboot.service                  loaded    inactive dead   First Boot Wizard
  systemd-fsck-root.service                  loaded    inactive dead   File System Check on Root Device
  systemd-halt.service                       loaded    inactive dead   System Halt
  systemd-hibernate-clear.service            loaded    inactive dead   Clear Stale Hibernate Storage Info
  systemd-hibernate-resume.service           loaded    inactive dead   Resume from hibernation
  systemd-hostnamed.service                  loaded    inactive dead   Hostname Service
  systemd-hwdb-update.service                loaded    inactive dead   Rebuild Hardware Database
  systemd-importd.service                    loaded    inactive dead   Disk Image Download Service
  systemd-initctl.service                    loaded    inactive dead   initctl Compatibility Daemon
  systemd-journal-catalog-update.service     loaded    inactive dead   Rebuild Journal Catalog
  systemd-kexec.service                      loaded    inactive dead   Reboot via kexec
  systemd-machine-id-commit.service          loaded    inactive dead   Save Transient machine-id to Disk
  systemd-mountfsd.service                   loaded    inactive dead   DDI File System Mounter
  systemd-pcrmachine.service                 loaded    inactive dead   TPM PCR Machine ID Measurement
  systemd-pcrphase-initrd.service            loaded    inactive dead   TPM PCR Barrier (initrd)
  systemd-pcrphase-sysinit.service           loaded    inactive dead   TPM PCR Barrier (Initialization)
  systemd-pcrphase.service                   loaded    inactive dead   TPM PCR Barrier (User)
  systemd-poweroff.service                   loaded    inactive dead   System Power Off
  systemd-pstore.service                     loaded    inactive dead   Platform Persistent Storage Archival
  systemd-quotacheck-root.service            loaded    inactive dead   Root File System Quota Check
● systemd-quotacheck.service                 not-found inactive dead   systemd-quotacheck.service
  systemd-reboot.service                     loaded    inactive dead   System Reboot
● systemd-remount-fs.service                 loaded    failed   failed Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
  systemd-repart.service                     loaded    inactive dead   Repartition Root Disk
  systemd-rfkill.service                     loaded    inactive dead   Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status
  systemd-soft-reboot.service                loaded    inactive dead   Reboot System Userspace
  systemd-sysext.service                     loaded    inactive dead   Merge System Extension Images into /usr/ and /opt/
  systemd-sysusers.service                   loaded    inactive dead   Create System Users
  systemd-timesyncd.service                  loaded    inactive dead   Network Time Synchronization
  systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service             loaded    inactive dead   Cleanup of Temporary Directories
  systemd-tpm2-setup-early.service           loaded    inactive dead   Early TPM SRK Setup
  systemd-tpm2-setup.service                 loaded    inactive dead   TPM SRK Setup
  systemd-udev-settle.service                loaded    inactive dead   Wait for udev To Complete Device Initialization
  systemd-update-done.service                loaded    inactive dead   Update is Completed
  systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service       loaded    inactive dead   Record Runlevel Change in UTMP
  thermald.service                           loaded    inactive dead   Thermal Daemon Service
● tlp.service                                not-found inactive dead   tlp.service
  unbound-anchor.service                     loaded    inactive dead   update of the root trust anchor for DNSSEC validation in unbound
  vboxservice.service                        loaded    inactive dead   VirtualBox guest services
  vgauthd.service                            loaded    inactive dead   VGAuth Service for open-vm-tools
  vmtoolsd.service                           loaded    inactive dead   Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware

Legend: LOAD   → Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
        ACTIVE → The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
        SUB    → The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

124 loaded units listed.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.
$ systemctl --state=failed
  UNIT                       LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION                         
● systemd-remount-fs.service loaded failed failed Remount Root and Kernel File Systems

Legend: LOAD   → Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
        ACTIVE → The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
        SUB    → The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

$ systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service
× systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-remount-fs.service; enabled-runtime; pr>
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf, 50-keep-warm.conf
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2025-04-12 15:17:08 IST; 9h ago
 Invocation: 8d85812d3c7244fa8342ea5bb7ac647d
       Docs: man:systemd-remount-fs.service(8)
             https://systemd.io/API_FILE_SYSTEMS
    Process: 1246 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs (code=exited, status=1/FAILU>
   Main PID: 1246 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Mem peak: 1.8M
        CPU: 10ms

Apr 12 15:17:08 fedora systemd[1]: Starting systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Ke>
Apr 12 15:17:08 fedora systemd-remount-fs[1249]: mount: /: fsconfig system call failed: over>
Apr 12 15:17:08 fedora systemd-remount-fs[1249]:        dmesg(1) may have more information a>
Apr 12 15:17:08 fedora systemd-remount-fs[1246]: /usr/bin/mount for / exited with exit statu>
Apr 12 15:17:08 fedora systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: Main process exited, code=exi>
Apr 12 15:17:08 fedora systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: Failed with result 'exit-code>
Apr 12 15:17:08 fedora systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root>
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I’m not quite sure about the others, but for systemd-remount-fs.service see:

that issue was not there in fedora 41

Following Fedora CoreOS in Fedora 41, Fedora Atomic Desktops are now using ComposeFS by default. This is an important first step towards better integrity for the system content. As a side effect of this change, the systemd-remount-fs.service unit may fail to start on your system. Until we find a good way to fix this, you can find more information and a workaround to apply in the previous post.

ok i am switching back to 41 for now thanks.

Although systemd-remount-fs.service technically fails, this is basically harmless, as already mentioned in other threads and issues.