System frozen on rawhide at start-up

[Antonio M]

I applied latest updates with yumex few minutes ago, that froze during
clean-up of some packages, so I rebooted, but system doesn't start any
more, as it is not able to start the system logger

How do I recover??

[James Laska]

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 09:08 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> I applied latest updates with yumex few minutes ago, that froze during
> clean-up of some packages, so I rebooted, but system doesn't start any
> more, as it is not able to start the system logger
>
> How do I recover??

Can you remove "rhgb quiet' from the boot options, and watch the console
for any failure messages.  The boot messages may provide information as
to what the root cause is.  In addition, it might be good to review the
packages updated since your last successful reboot.

Thanks,
James

[Antonio M]

2010/2/11 James Laska :
> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 09:08 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> > I applied latest updates with yumex few minutes ago, that froze during
> > clean-up of some packages, so I rebooted, but system doesn't start any
> > more, as it is not able to start the system logger
> >
> > How do I recover??
>
> Can you remove "rhgb quiet' from the boot options, and watch the console
> for any failure messages.  The boot messages may provide information as
> to what the root cause is.  In addition, it might be good to review the
> packages updated since your last successful reboot.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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Boot stops in the interactive startup after portreserve (that is o.k.)
and freezes at system logger, i see some messages that udevd is
obsolete but after some time screen blanks and I see some activity on
the hard disk, but system seems locked..
any idea??

[Tom Mannerhagen]

Hi Antonio

I saw this on nightly build as well.
Try pressing I during services start and skip the logging service.
I know it is a stupid way to solve a problem, but it worked for me :)

hälsningar / regards

Tom Mannerhagen

-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio M 
Reply-to: For testers of Fedora development releases

To: For testers of Fedora development releases

Subject: Re: System frozen on rawhide at start-up
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:12:37 +0100

2010/2/11 James Laska :
> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 09:08 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> > I applied latest updates with yumex few minutes ago, that froze during
> > clean-up of some packages, so I rebooted, but system doesn't start any
> > more, as it is not able to start the system logger
> >
> > How do I recover??
>
> Can you remove "rhgb quiet' from the boot options, and watch the console
> for any failure messages.  The boot messages may provide information as
> to what the root cause is.  In addition, it might be good to review the
> packages updated since your last successful reboot.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> --
> test mailing list
> [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Boot stops in the interactive startup after portreserve (that is o.k.)
and freezes at system logger, i see some messages that udevd is
obsolete but after some time screen blanks and I see some activity on
the hard disk, but system seems locked..
any idea??

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 14:12:37 +0100,
  Antonio M  wrote:
> 2010/2/11 James Laska :
>
> Boot stops in the interactive startup after portreserve (that is o.k.)
> and freezes at system logger, i see some messages that udevd is
> obsolete but after some time screen blanks and I see some activity on
> the hard disk, but system seems locked..
> any idea??

rsyslog is having some problems. For me waiting several minutes resulted
in a timeout and the boot completing.
The rsyslog maintainer is working on the problem.