On 05/11/2017 01:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 05/11/2017 01:21 PM, Bill Mattison wrote:
> This is an f24 system. I just (about 1pm US mountain time) completed
> my weekly "dnf upgrade", and I saw no hint of failure or trouble. But
> when I shut down the system, and then powered back up, the boot
> failed. The grub menu looked ok. The blue-and-white bar at the
> bottom of the boot screen did go most of the way normally. But it
> never got to the log in screen. There was some text being displayed,
> but I have no way of capturing it, and I don't remember what it said.
>
Try choosing one of the other kernel versions from the boot menu and see
if that makes a difference. Try pressing the ESC key as soon as you see
the logo filling up, that will give you some more information about the
booting process. If you edit the boot entry, you could remove the
"rhgb" and "quiet" options from the kernel command line. That will
give
you even more info about the boot process. Let us know what you find
out from these steps.
If there is text on the screen that you don't understand, you could try
taking a picture of it and posting it somewhere.
If you just did a big upgrade (particularly kernels and you use some
akmod stuff), there may be a delay towards the end of the "blue line"
finishing filling or the bubble filling up all the way. There may be
even more of a delay between those completing and the actual login
prompt.
If you have a disk activity LED, watch it...it may be on solid or
flickering really fast. That's indicative of the akmods being built and
loaded. I notice this a lot if I use a nVidia blobs for my video cards
and/or having the system build rescue initrds.
If the LED is off and you still don't get a login prompt, try
"CTRL-ALT-F1" (or "CTRL-ALT-<F3 through F6>"--try them all) to
get a raw
console and see if you can log in there. If you can, have a look at the
"/var/log/boot.log" file. You should get an indication as to what the
issue is.
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