[Mageia-dev] M3 won't complete boot after update

Tue Sep 25 16:02:48 CEST 2012

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+Sent yesterday, but not seen on-list, so apologies if this is a duplicate.
+
+I finally got around to connecting my netbook, which has been running
+Cauldron for some time.  This was fully up to date before my holidays,
+and apart from the recent display problem (which as Angelo Naselli
+suspected, is a KDE problem) it has behaved beautifully.  Today,
+though, needed almost 3 weeks worth of updates, and when it finished,
+it won't boot.
+
+There are obviously problems with my remote mounts, but we are talking
+in detail about that on another thread.  Mostly things look to be
+going well up to that stage, then I see messages like
+
+Started RPC bind service
+Reached target Remote File Systems (Pre).
+Mounting /mnt/QNAS-Lydgate-Data...
+Mounting /mnt/borg2/home...
+Mounting /mnt/borg2_Data1...
+Reached target RPC Port Mapper.
+Failed to mount /mnt/QNAS-Lydgate-Data.
+See systemctl status /mnt-QNAS\x2dLydgate\x2dData.mount for details.
+.... (other similar pairs of lines)
+Dependency failed for Remote File Systems
+
+After these lines, suddenly two of the QNAS mounts (one of which is
+/mnt/QNAS/Lydgate-Data mentioned above) do succeed.  The two borg2
+mounts still fail, as do some of the other QNAS mounts.
+
+A few more lines, and all looks reasonable, until
+
+[FAILED] Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
+
+then
+Reached target Multi-User
+Reached target Graphical Interface
+
+and there it freezes.
+
+Later:
+
+I tried booting from the older kernel.  On the graphical screen, it
+appears to get a lot further, 5 bubbles instead of 2, but when I tried
+it again watching the messages it appears to follow the same path as
+the new kernel boot, ending at the same place.
+
+Interestingly, though, the nfs mount that succeeds, after saying it
+had failed, was not the same one as yesterdays.  Still, that's
+probably a side-issue.
+
+The situation now is that I appear to have a completely unusable M3.
+The line
+
+[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Remote File Systems
+
+is obviously important.  Not knowing what that dependency is, I don't
+know whether it could do more damage than failing to mount remote
+systems.  It doesn't sound likely, but....
+
+Anne
+- - --
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