Hi Deloptes,  Thank you for your help.

On Friday 16 March 2018 16:35:13 deloptes wrote:
> Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > The process is triggered by one of the many raceconditions
> > introduced in systemd. If you can, get rid of systemd, install
> > devuan or exegnulinux or antix or ....

Is this as straight forward as using package manager for sysv-rc, 
sysvinit-core and sysvinit-utils. ?

> no need to do so. just install
> ii  sysv-rc                               2.88dsf-59.9
> all          System-V-like runlevel change mechanism
> ii  sysvinit-core                         2.88dsf-59.9
> amd64        System-V-like init utilities
> ii  sysvinit-utils                        2.88dsf-59.9
> amd64        System-V-like utilities
>
> trash systemd-sysv and reboot
>
> if you keep systemd-sysv add in /etc/default/grub
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT ..... init=/lib/sysvinit/init
>
> and update-initramfs
>
>
> but it could be also a disk issue or unclean fs - probably you
> don't use ext4 and/or root is setup to remount ro on error

Yes I think root is setup to remount ro on error.

> boot from rescue and fsck
>
> regards

-- 
Best Regards:
            Baron