If you cannot boot after installing systemd v8...

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Aug 26 12:36:31 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 01:58 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya!
> 
> We shifted a few files around and most likely your
> /etc/systemd/system/default.target link will now point into the void, in
> case anaconda wrote it. If that happens to you and you end up in a
> rescue shell instead of a full system after booting with v8, then please
> execute the following:
> 
>   # ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/systemd/default.target
> 
> or
> 
>   # ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/systemd/default.target
> 
> You can also choose to boot up into a normal system without the correct
> default.target link, by passing "5" resp "3" on the kernel cmdline.
> 
> Sorry for breaking this (again), but with this in place things should be
> at the appropriate places now for F14.

Lennart, I think we should avoid this kind of breakage after the alpha,
or at the very least try to fix things up in %post. 



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