[Mageia-dev] Fresh install hangs during boot since yesterday

Wed Nov 16 17:00:16 CET 2011

Since yesterday's updates, I've done repeated (3) fresh cauldron 
+installs on a partition on an Acer Aspire One.  In each case, after 
+mounting the partition from another working partition and rebuilding the 
+initrd with radeon-firmware, booting the new partition gets to the point 
+of putting up the Mageia splash screen, and then hangs for 10 or 15 
+*minutes* before the DM finally starts.
+
+It's not dead, because the dots on the splash screen turn blue (but at 
+an extremely slow rate).  However, getty doesn't start, and the only two 
+VCs are 7 (the splash screen) and 1, which has a few normal messages 
+about the framebuffer
+
+Syslog looks absolutely normal, with the exception of the following:
+
+    systemd(1): plymouth-quit-wait.service operation timed out. Terminating.
+    systemd(1): Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service entered failed state.
+
+Apparently, whatever it is keeps rsyslog from starting, as the 
+timestamps of all of the entries cover a span of about 5 seconds, and 
+don't reflect the actual delay anywhere.  I'm guessing that rsyslog gets 
+all the cached boot messages when it finally starts, and assigns the 
+timestamps at that time.
+
+A fresh cauldron install to a different partition, done a few days ago, 
+does not have this problem.
+
+Any ideas ?
+