F19 Kernels 3.10.5, 6, 7 won't boot

Robert McBroom mcforum at bellsouth.net
Thu Aug 22 04:34:59 UTC 2013


Updated to Fedora 19 but none of the kernels will boot. The process 
begins and something about an error with connecting to DBUS flashes on 
the screen then the cycle starts over. I can still run with 
kernel-3.10.4-100.fc18.x86_64 although it complains about a file missing 
that udev would like to see.

[ 14.730648] systemd-udevd[1081]: failed to execute 
'/usr/lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' 
'socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event': No such file or directory

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz

Working boot

BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.4-100.fc18.x86_64 
root=UUID=f04657c0-2964-494f-8efa-f194b7ba370a ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 
rd.dm=0 vconsole.keymap=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 quiet pci=nomsi 
noapic irqpoll vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 3 nouveau.modeset=0 
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off

Looking at the /var/log messages see

Aug 18 00:31:57 robert-pc dbus[1066]: [system] Activating via systemd: 
service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' 
unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service'
Aug 18 00:31:57 robert-pc dbus[1066]: [system] Activation via systemd 
failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service': Unit 
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service failed to load: No such file 
or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status 
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service' for details.
Aug 18 00:31:57 robert-pc NetworkManager[1044]: <warn> Dispatcher 
failed: (32) Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service failed to 
load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status 
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service' for details.
Aug 18 00:31:57 robert-pc dbus-daemon[1066]: dbus[1066]: [system] 
Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' 
unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service'
Aug 18 00:31:57 robert-pc dbus-daemon[1066]: dbus[1066]: [system] 
Activation via systemd failed for unit 
'dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service': Unit 
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service failed to load: No such file 
or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status 
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service' for details.

# systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service

dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service
Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)


Any ideas as to what is happening?

Robert McBroom


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