Re: System hang during boot and dracut-pre-mount-hooks processing
Stan,
Thanks for responding to this request for help.
Here's my"ls -n" results. The 5.18 kernels all work and the 6.1 kernel
fails. The size doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't libraries missing
though.
The smaller 5.18 initramfs file was created by my manual invocation of dracut to build it
but it STILL BOOTS.
As I stated, my "hang"is in dracut-pre-mount hooks processing. I don't know
enough about dracut to trouble shoot this any further. I'm eager to learn though.
Pointers to docs would be helpful. Is there a ldd lookalike for initramfs? I could unpack
the boot and bad initramfs files and compare the libraries in both. This might give a clue
as to what's going on.
Around the point of this failure are what looks like something is writing a script... just
a few lines but zfs is referenced though.
I don't have this problem with a F38 VM (VirtualBox). Also, I do NOT see any strange
messages during system upgrade although dnf apparently runs something that uses ALL memory
or somehow triggers an OOM kill event that kills the window manager and logs me off the
system.
I have only one system here... sigh... Is there no other way to get a console that one
could copy the output into a regular file?
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
George...
-rw-------. 1 0 0 90418168 Jul 10 2021
initramfs-0-rescue-e2edb6843ecc4ced9cb7a03f8590963d.img
-rw------- 1 0 0 38459141 May 17 15:58 initramfs-5.18.0-0.rc7.54.fc37.x86_64.img
-rw------- 1 0 0 105695183 Jun 13 02:37 initramfs-5.18.0-0.rc7.54.fc37.x86_64.img.dist
-rw------- 1 0 0 114688965 Oct 20 18:36
initramfs-6.1.0-0.rc1.20221018gitbb1a1146467a.16.fc38.x86_64.img