sometimes boots f21, sometimes hangs

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 12:05:15 UTC 2015


I find that I need to remove rhgb and quiet or it (probably) never boots.

Ranjan Maitra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I suspect that I have had this problem (and am having this again),
> inconsistently with different laptops. Basically, if you boot without rhgb
> quiet, this is what happens (I posted this earlier, but no resolution was
> possible): this has happened to me on a Dell Latitude E6400 (in December,
> but not with the update to kernel 3.19.1 -- will see if the problem crops
> up with the update to kernel 3.19.2), a Dell XPS 13 (earlier in November
> with F20 and now again, with the update to kernel 3.19.1) and a Dell
> Dimension M3800 (earlier with F20 but a different kernel update than the
> XPS 13, and now again with the update to kernel 3.19.1).
> 
> I posted this on a thread (Thu, 18 Dec 2014 titled Fedora 21 update (not
> upgrade) fails with broken boot) but no resolution was found. I am not
> even sure what to BZ on, given that not all machines fail.
> 
> Btw, here is what happens (taken from my post of 18 Dec 2014), and note
> that I do not use rhgb and quiet (in the boot parameter) so I get
> text-based information.
> 
> 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 may say that Ctrl-D does get me the login screen, but why this
> message/hang and rigmarole?
> 
> Any suggestions/pointers would be appreciated. Happy to provide more
> information as possible.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Ranjan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:30:01 -0400 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> New lenovo X1 carbon.  Sometimes boots, sometimes hangs.
>> 
>> Today tried to boot and repeatly hung, saying
>> 
>> waitjob for /sysroot
>> 
>> Sounds pretty scary.
>> 
>> After repeated attempts, now it is booted OK.
>> 
>> Tried on latest kernel and also previous 1 or 2.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
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