fedup: it's full of stars

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Thu Jan 17 22:57:11 UTC 2013


On 01/17/2013 02:06 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> One of the laptops I'm trying to upgrade to f18/x86_64 from f17/x86_64
> is printing row after row of asterisks after it rebooted into the fedup
> boot environment.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?  Is there a fix or do I have to do a
> wipe/reinstall from some other source?
>
> -wolfgang


Yes, happened to me.  Its a Plymouth bug, I think.  Caused by hitting 
ESC before Plymouth is ready for you to. :)

Also, if you let it go and watch the progress bar move for a bit, hit 
ESC, then hit ESC again to go back, the progress bar resets and does not 
ever progress any more. :)


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