Beware of rebooting in rawhide right now

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 15:03:35 +1200,
   Roger Barraud <roger.barraud at gmail.com> wrote:
>Is there a suggested recovery strategy for backing out to a bootable state?

I tried doing it on one machine but didn't have much luck because the 
minium requirements for several packages all changed at once and the old 
udev stuff was obsoleted. I managed to toast the root file system on one 
machine, but I don't think that was directly caused by the bugs.

If you roll back everything to when the rc5 git0 kernel was built, things 
should work except for encrypted home and you can still mount home (and
encrypted swap) if need be and then start graphical.target.

If you have an older initramfs image saved you probably don't need to go 
back quite that far, as I don't think things got really broken until 
until Tuesday. With systemd-185-7.gite7aee75.fc18 you can probably boot 
again. However I think the update following that (systemd-186-1.fc18) was 
the one that obsoleted a udev package. I remember trying to go back and 
having troubles getting everything I needed. But I had already toasted 
a chunk of the root file system by then and am not sure which issue 
was blocking things.

I have been thinking about how I might try to handle recovering my other 
rawhide system, but was really hoping there'd be a fixed systemd I could 
update to, rather than try a complicated downgrade.

I am going to use an f15 live image to mount my file systems and chroot 
so that I can use yum to do upgrades or downgrades as needed.