sometimes boots f21, sometimes hangs

[Neal Becker]

I've never seen that, do you have to wait a long time?

I've taken to always booting with rhgb+quiet removed, and with mode 3.  Then
manually systemctl restart sddm after boot

Ranjan Maitra wrote:

> Same here, but do you get to the ctrl-d to continue stage?
> 
> Ranjan
> 
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:05:15 -0400 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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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