Weirdnes on screen when booting.

[Ger van Dijck]

Hi Fedora,

When booting Fedora 27 (fully updated) suddenly totaly unpredicted  
sometimes I get three aps on screen : Home , Filesystem root and Boot.

If this is the case suddenly in the directory Computer appears the aps  
Boot,Filesystem root,Home and File system : Normally I get following  
content : PLUS DVD +/-RW DU-8A5HH , ST1000LHN101MBB system reserved , ST  
etc.Ger (my name) ,ST etc. Windows 10 Pro and File system.

You understand when this happens I cannot approach the DVD/CD  
reader/burner and the other aps , that normally  in the directory Computer  
are listed , anymore .

How can I correct this failure ?

Regards,

Ger van Dijck.

[stan]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:53:45 +0100
"Ger van Dijck"  wrote:
> Hi Fedora,
>
> When booting Fedora 27 (fully updated) suddenly totaly unpredicted  
> sometimes I get three aps on screen : Home , Filesystem root and Boot.
>
> If this is the case suddenly in the directory Computer appears the
> aps Boot,Filesystem root,Home and File system : Normally I get
> following content : PLUS DVD +/-RW DU-8A5HH , ST1000LHN101MBB system
> reserved , ST etc.Ger (my name) ,ST etc. Windows 10 Pro and File
> system.
>
> You understand when this happens I cannot approach the DVD/CD  
> reader/burner and the other aps , that normally  in the directory
> Computer are listed , anymore .
>
> How can I correct this failure ?

I am not sure what you mean by aps, but I'll assume you are talking
about an icon or menu item.

I can't tell you how to correct this, but it sounds like an
intermittent bug.  When this happens at boot, and when it doesn't, run
journalctl -b, and cut the part of the boot that is concerned with
mounting filesystems and paste it into a text file.  Then, do a diff on
the two files to see what is different in them.  That should point to
what is happening, and allow you to open a bugzilla against the proper
component to get this fixed.

The types of things you are talking about are usually mounted based on
the information in /etc/fstab.  But that doesn't match with Windows
being in the list.  Is this before linux starts, the menu of what
system to start?