On 2012/07/02 02:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:

I've done 5 Rawhide and 1 F17 HTTP installs today, and always I get the subject line, with neither X nor networking nor even multiuser. How do I get systemd to put me in multiuser? Just about everything I try at the prompt results in CNF: e.g. runlevel, init, chkconfig, startx, ifup, ifconfig (reboot works :-p ). I've tried booting else and chrooting in to upgrade, add apps, etc. (KDE, X11), but still on reboot I'm back at rescue prompt. :-(

Logs (in which I recognize no clues): http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/anaconda-ks-cfgf17-gx62b.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/install.log.syslog-f17-gx62b.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/install.log-f17-gx62b.txt

Where do I look, do I do, to get full multiuser (init 3)? Online docs are useless because everything looks like http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/fedoradocs.png

It finally occurred to me to try mount, and / was not mounted. Fixed typo made it work. I don't understand how the same typo could have happened so many times, unless they weren't all the same. :-p

On 2012/07/02 08:27 (GMT+0100) Frank Murphy composed:

Felix Miata wrote:

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It finally occurred to me to try mount, and / was not mounted. Fixed typo made it work. I don't understand how the same typo could have happened so many times, unless they weren't all the same. :-p

The one thing you didn't answer in the "solved" is how you accomplished the mount /.

Actually it's very complicated by needing to work around https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808970. The whole ordeal was precipitated by the need to see if https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51640 needed to be filed (which it was), after which I replied to thread with problem "solved". Actually it's only partly solved.

The first tries were to sda13, which was then rsync'd to sda12 and fstab & grub cmdline modified accordingly for use. After those failed the first tries I tried using sda13 without the move to sda12, but still was getting Rescue Mode. It was only after switching to installing F17 instead of Rawhide, and fixing the cmdline typo, that I was able to reach multiuser and do things instead of needing to chroot in from a different installation to get anything accomplished. I then upgraded F17 to Rawhide in order to reach the initial goal (bug 51640).

So now the installation indirectly (rsync sda13 to sda12) from Rawhide still has the problem:

... Freeing unused kernel memory: 2048k freed Write protecting the kernel text: 6244k Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 2312k MX-protecting the kernel data: 6044k systemd[1]: system 185 running in system mode. (+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP; fedora) Welcome to Fedora 18 (Rawhide) dracut-028-1.fc18 (Initramfs)! systemd[1]: No hostname configured. systemd[1]: Set hostname to <localhost>. systemd[1]: Initializing machine ID from random generator. systemd[1]: Failed to load default target: No such file or directory systemd[1]: Trying to load rescue target... Starting Rescue Shell Started Rescue Shell Listening on udev Kernel Socket. Listening on udev Control Socket. Listening on Journal Socket. Starting Setup Virtual Console... Starting udev Kernel Device Manager... Starting Journal Service... udevd[57]: starting version 185 Started Journal Service. setfont (56) used greates stack depth: 6216 bytes left systemd-journald[60]: Fixed max_use=99.8M max_size=12.4M min_size=64.0K keep_free=49.9M systemd-journald[60]: Vacuuming... systemd-journald[60]: Flushing /proc/kmsg... Starting udev Coldplug all devices... Reached target Swap. Reached target Local File Systems. Started udev Kernel Device Manager. Started Setup Virtual Console. Reached target System Initialization. Reached target Rescue Mode. systemd-cgroups (63) used greatest stack depth: 6200 bytes left systemd-cgroups (86) used greatest stack depth: 5988 bytes left ata_id (89) used greatest stack depth: 5800 bytes left systemd-udevd (78) used greatest stack depth: 5752 bytes left ([21.3.....]) kworker/u:0 (5) used greatest stack depth: 5708 bytes left ([307.3.....])

# cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/sda12 rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us noresume selinux=0 splash=verbose noipv6 vga=794 video=1152x864@60 3

# mount | grep sda

# mount -t ext3 -o noatime /dev/sda12 / EXT4-fs (sda12): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem EXT4-fs (sda12): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

# mount | grep sda /dev/sda12 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)

# systemctl isolate multi-user.target Failed to issue method call: Operation refused, unit may not be isolated.

# ifconfig -a sh: ifconfig: command not found

# ifup sh: ifup: command not found

# systemctl UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION -.mount loaded active mounted / systemd-ask-password-console.path loaded active waiting Dispatch Password Requests to Consold Directory Watch rescue.service loaded active running Rescue Shell systemd-journald.service loaded active running Journal Service systemd-udev-trigger.service loaded active exited udev Coldplug all Devices systemd-udev.service loaded active running udev Kernel Device Manager systemd-vconsole-setup.service loaded active exited Setup Virtual Console systemd-journald.socket loaded active running Journal Socket systemd-udev-control.socket loaded active listening udev Control Socket systemd-udev-kernel.socket loaded active running udev Kernel Socket local-fs.target loaded active active Local File Systems rescue.target loaded active active Rescue Mode swap.target loaded active active Swap sysinit.target loaded active active System Initialization LOAD = Reflects whether hte unit definition was properly loaded ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB. SUB = The low-level unit activation state, valudes depen on unit type. JOB = Pending job for the unit 14 units listed. Pass --all to see inactive units too.

# systemctl --all ... plymouth-start.service error inactive dead plymouth-start.service ... syslog.service error inactive dead syslog.service ... systemd-readahead-collect.service error inactive dead systemd-readahead-collect.service systemd-readahead-replay.service error inactive dead systemd-readahead-replay.service ... 35 units listed

# systemctl start network.service Failed to issue method call: Unit network.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status netowrk.service' for details

# systemctl status network.service network.service Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead)

# ls -l /etc/systemd/system ls: cannot access /etc/systemd/system: No such file or directory

# ls -l /root total 0

What to do?