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This was fully up to date before my holidays, +</I>><i> and apart from the recent display problem (which as Angelo Naselli +</I>><i> suspected, is a KDE problem) it has behaved beautifully. Today, +</I>><i> though, needed almost 3 weeks worth of updates, and when it finished, +</I>><i> it won't boot. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> There are obviously problems with my remote mounts, but we are talking +</I>><i> in detail about that on another thread. Mostly things look to be +</I>><i> going well up to that stage, then I see messages like +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Started RPC bind service +</I>><i> Reached target Remote File Systems (Pre). +</I>><i> Mounting /mnt/QNAS-Lydgate-Data... +</I>><i> Mounting /mnt/borg2/home... +</I>><i> Mounting /mnt/borg2_Data1... +</I>><i> Reached target RPC Port Mapper. +</I>><i> Failed to mount /mnt/QNAS-Lydgate-Data. +</I>><i> See systemctl status /mnt-QNAS\x2dLydgate\x2dData.mount for details. +</I>><i> .... (other similar pairs of lines) +</I>><i> Dependency failed for Remote File Systems +</I>><i> +</I>><i> After these lines, suddenly two of the QNAS mounts (one of which is +</I>><i> /mnt/QNAS/Lydgate-Data mentioned above) do succeed. The two borg2 +</I>><i> mounts still fail, as do some of the other QNAS mounts. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> A few more lines, and all looks reasonable, until +</I>><i> +</I>><i> [FAILED] Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit +</I>><i> +</I>><i> then +</I>><i> Reached target Multi-User +</I>><i> Reached target Graphical Interface +</I>><i> +</I>><i> and there it freezes. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Later: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I tried booting from the older kernel. On the graphical screen, it +</I>><i> appears to get a lot further, 5 bubbles instead of 2, but when I tried +</I>><i> it again watching the messages it appears to follow the same path as +</I>><i> the new kernel boot, ending at the same place. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Interestingly, though, the nfs mount that succeeds, after saying it +</I>><i> had failed, was not the same one as yesterdays. Still, that's +</I>><i> probably a side-issue. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The situation now is that I appear to have a completely unusable M3. +</I>><i> The line +</I>><i> +</I>><i> [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Remote File Systems +</I>><i> +</I>><i> is obviously important. Not knowing what that dependency is, I don't +</I>><i> know whether it could do more damage than failing to mount remote +</I>><i> systems. It doesn't sound likely, but.... +</I> +If the remote mounts are not critical, just add nofail to the fstab options. + +I suspect strongly that any issues with these mounts is entirely +separate to the actual graphical boot. + +Personally, I was seeing crashes with qt4... perhaps try switching to +gdm as you're DM and see if the graphical boot comes up OK, that way we +could see easily if it's something high level. + +Also you could try and look and see what systemctl status prefdm.service +says to you (you might need to switch to tty2). + +Col + + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="018920.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 won't complete boot after update +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="018924.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 won't complete boot after update +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#18921">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#18921">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#18921">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#18921">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |