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

Tue Sep 25 16:41:09 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 25/09/12 15:02 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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....
+
+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
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