Rawhide boot problems

[Jim Meyering]

Jerry James wrote:
> I've got two Rawhide VMs, one x86_64, one i686, both otherwise
> identical.  I last booted them yesterday and did a yum repo-sync.
> Today, neither of them will boot.
>
> First, systemd complained about being unable to find
> systemd-journal-flush.service.  Sure enough, it wasn't in the
> initramfs.  So I added
> "$systemdsystemunitdir/systemd-journal-flush.service" to
> /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/98systemd/module-setup.sh, and regenerated
> the initramfs.  Now the boot gets past that point, but starts doing
> this over and over, apparently forever, even in emergency mode:

Thank you for posting about this, and to everyone who has been
working on http://bugzilla.redhat.com/847418.  I hit the same bug
when my rawhide VM updated to the latest kernel, and you've saved
me the trouble of investigating.  For now, I get by using the
preceding kernel.