If you cannot boot after installing systemd v8...

[Martin Sourada]

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.
> 
<sarcasm mode>It's nice that I cannot boot, but it's even nicer that I
cannot get to that point since I cannot shutdown either... </sarcasm
mode>

So, I've updated to v8 (and of course forget to create that above
mentioned symlink) and logged off and tried reboot. To no avail. So I
switched to tty, logged as root and tried
# reboot
to no avail. Then
# shutdown -h
to no avail.
Then ctrl-alt-del to no avail. I was dumb (and hasty) enough to not copy
the error messages (all looked at very least very similar) and did a
hard shutdown and booted to f12... But, here's at lease something
from /var/log/messages:

Aug 26 14:17:37 localhost systemd[1]: Activating special unit
ctrl-alt-del.target
Aug 26 14:17:37 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to enqueue
ctrl-alt-del.target job: Unit reboot.service failed to load. See logs
for details.

Oh, and adding my +1 to the complains that this kind of breakage
post-alpha should be avoided.

Martin
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