One interesting difference between level 3 and default boot. With default boot and quiet etc off I see a iscsi failure that I don't see in level 3: [Failed] Failed to start LSB: Starts and Stops login and scanning of iscsi devices. Asks to run systemctl status iscsi.service for details. But of course when I run this in level 3 I don't see the problem because I never see that failure message on. Lot in level 3. I wonder if I just need to reinstall Fedora 17 at this stage. It's very disappointing that there isn't some sort of diagnostic tool that I could run to solve and fix this issue. F17 has been the most troublesome for me. I started at F7 and don't remember anything like the issues I've had this time around. (my preupgrade failed and I had to install from scratch and now this from-scratch install had a problem with an update.) /me looks forward to F18 (I think). (or maybe it's my Lenovo x220) William On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 13 August 2012 20:45, William Henry <whenry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Just wondering if anyone else experienced this problem in the last week or >> so with Fedora 17. >> >> My machine notified my of updates last Wednesday. I went ahead with the >> updates. Without warning my screen sort-of flashed and then the machine >> rebooted. However it would not boot but instead hung (right after the common > > That's not a great sign, I don't think doing an update is supposed to > reboot the machine automatically. It's likely your system crashed > (either hardware or software) and if that happened during an update > you might be in an awkward place. Alternatively something got > installed that was sufficiently broken that it caused a crash (though > I don't think that would affect X until you restarted X). Or it just > happens that one of the updates doesn't work for you and the restart > was incidental. > >> bad font type message). My machine will boot in level 3 mode and I can run >> startx in that mode - though it doesn't manage to run the gnome 3 interface. >> >> I've tried several pretty useless changes - useless in that though they came >> up in google searches they really don't seem to have anything to do with the >> issue. I've looked at /var/log/messages with some other experts and we can't >> see anything that stands out. The issue seems to be an Xorg problem and I'm >> not sure how I can reconfigure. I've tried running: "Xorg :1 configure" but >> that didn't do anything. I don't see any system-config-monitor or anything >> like that anymore. So I'm not sure what to do to get gnome 3 back working. >> >> Anyone any ideas/similar issues? As I said I can boot in level 3 and run >> startx but I still hang on a normal boot. >> > > I'd look at the yum log (/var/log/yum.log) for the update and try > reinstalling all implicated packages (assuming you have a network > connection available). If there are X related packages upgraded try > rolling them back if possible (I'm assuming that if there's a kernel > update in the window you've already tried booting the previous one). > Might also be worth finding the /var/log/boot.log that corresponds to > one of the failed boots. > > -- > imalone > http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > laptop mailing list > laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
