F19 Kernels 3.10.5, 6, 7 won't boot

[Mihai T. Lazarescu]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:34:59AM -0400, Robert McBroom wrote:

> 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?

No idea, but I also see that:

** the icon of the power manager is missing;

** when is returning from sleep it goes back to sleep right
   away.  Only the second time stays awake;

** when this happens, after the second wakeup the ath9k module
   issues continuously for a couple dozen of seconds or so:

    kernel: [121459.809116] ath: phy0: PLL4 meaurement not done

3.10.[56] had no apparent shortcoming, though.

Mihai