Fedora 21 update (not upgrade) fails with broken boot

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:33:06 -0700 Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Ranjan Maitra
> <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for offering to help!
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:14:37 -0700 Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Ranjan Maitra
> >> <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > A recent update with new kernel has broken my boot. This is what happens: I boot in through grub. Pretty soon, I get:
> >> >
> >> > Generating "/run/initramfs/rsdsosreport.txt"
> >> > Welcome to emergency mode! After loggin in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or ^D to try again to boot into defauly mode.
> >> > Give root password for maintenance.
> >> > (or press Control-D to continue):
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I do not have root on this machine, so I am not sure what to do (I have sudo status). What am I supposed to do? (I may say Ctrl-D does get me the login screen, but why this message and rigmarole)?
> 
> Yeah I'm actually confused on this point too, now that I've tried it.
> 
> The installer allows installation to complete, without setting a root
> password, so long as a user has been created. But emergency shell
> requires a root password. So... basic boot time troubleshooting is
> incompatible with an installer that allows no root password being set.
> 
> I think the easiest, maybe least desirable, and possibly against your
> local policy, would be to complete the boot (control-d) and then set a
> root password: sudo passwd root
> 
> 
> > $ sudo cat /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt
> > cat: /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt: No such file or directory
> 
> I'm going to guess, that this file goes away after boot completes, it
> doesn't get moved anywhere. And since you can't login as root, you
> can't copy it somewhere else. So... to get that report you'd going to
> need to be root.

Thank you very much again! I did as you suggested and copied the file over to /tmp and uploaded it over.

$ fpaste /tmp/rdsosreport.txt 
Uploading (5.2KiB)...
http://ur1.ca/j5tak -> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/161093/89317911

Many thanks again!

Best wishes,
Ranjan

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