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This was fully up to date +</I>>><i> before my holidays, and apart from the recent display problem +</I>>><i> (which as Angelo Naselli suspected, is a KDE problem) it has +</I>>><i> behaved beautifully. Today, though, needed almost 3 weeks worth +</I>>><i> of updates, and when it finished, it won't boot. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> There are obviously problems with my remote mounts, but we are +</I>>><i> talking in detail about that on another thread. Mostly things +</I>>><i> look to be going well up to that stage, then I see messages like +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Started RPC bind service Reached target Remote File Systems +</I>>><i> (Pre). Mounting /mnt/QNAS-Lydgate-Data... Mounting +</I>>><i> /mnt/borg2/home... Mounting /mnt/borg2_Data1... Reached target +</I>>><i> RPC Port Mapper. Failed to mount /mnt/QNAS-Lydgate-Data. See +</I>>><i> systemctl status /mnt-QNAS\x2dLydgate\x2dData.mount for details. +</I>>><i> .... (other similar pairs of lines) Dependency failed for Remote +</I>>><i> File Systems +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> After these lines, suddenly two of the QNAS mounts (one of which +</I>>><i> is /mnt/QNAS/Lydgate-Data mentioned above) do succeed. The two +</I>>><i> borg2 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 Reached target Multi-User Reached target Graphical +</I>>><i> 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, +</I>>><i> it appears to get a lot further, 5 bubbles instead of 2, but when +</I>>><i> I tried it again watching the messages it appears to follow the +</I>>><i> same path as the new kernel boot, ending at the same place. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Interestingly, though, the nfs mount that succeeds, after saying +</I>>><i> it 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 +</I>>><i> M3. 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 +</I>>><i> don't know whether it could do more damage than failing to mount +</I>>><i> remote systems. It doesn't sound likely, but.... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If the remote mounts are not critical, just add nofail to the +</I>><i> fstab options. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I suspect strongly that any issues with these mounts is entirely +</I>><i> separate to the actual graphical boot. +</I>><i> +</I>Agreed. Adding nofail makes no difference. I've also tried removing +all options, down to a minimum defaults. However, they shouldn't stop +boot. FWIW, I'm still seeing that message about a dependency failure +for remote file systems. + +><i> Personally, I was seeing crashes with qt4... perhaps try switching +</I>><i> to gdm as you're DM and see if the graphical boot comes up OK, +</I>><i> that way we could see easily if it's something high level. +</I>><i> +</I>No, gdm doesn't get that far either. + +><i> Also you could try and look and see what systemctl status +</I>><i> prefdm.service says to you (you might need to switch to tty2). +</I>><i> +</I>prefdm.service - Display Manager + Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/prefdm.service: static) + Active: inactive (dead) + CGroup: name=systemd:system/prefdm.service + +(This from looking over my shoulder, so ignore any typos) + +I'll worry about the mounts later - the first thing is to get the +system back :-) + +Anne +- -- +Need KDE help? 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