3.12 kernels get stuck midway and do not get to gdm

[Dan Mossor]

On 12/20/2013 06:57 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone else having trouble with 3.12 kernels? Both of them stop at
> the Fedora bubble for me. They just stop. Here are screens-hots that I
> took:
>
> http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/kernel-3.12-failures/2013-12-21%
> 2011.31.27.jpg
> http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/kernel-3.12-failures/2013-12-21%
> 2011.32.22.jpg
> http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/kernel-3.12-failures/2013-12-21%
> 2011.34.07.jpg
>
>
> It only saved journalctl logs for one of these failed boots:
> http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/kernel-3.12-failures/journalctl-previous-boot.log
>
>
> It seems to stop at initrd.service starting up (line 1203).
>
> I don't have enough data to decide if it's a kernel issue or something
> else, but it comes up with both 3.12 kernels. I've filed a bug here[1].
> Should I give the 3.12 kernels negative karma for this?
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045662
>
>
>

I am booting fine with 3.12.5-301.fc20.x86_64 and nouveau, but I can't 
even get to the password for the encrypted disks stage with 
3.13.0-0.rc4.git1.1.fc21.x86_64. This issue is apparently fixed in rc5, 
but that hasn't made it into rawhide yet.

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