-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/2011 10:20 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > Sure could use some experts to help me fix this. touching /.autorelabel > on F15 leads to a horrible situation. > > Doing this seems to fail because /run is read-only - and so autorelabel > never completes - leaving the .autorelabel flag and leaving perpetual > poop on each reboot. > > Booting the machine in this state is possible but very very difficult. > > systemd and luks seems to have a problem when things dont go as expected > - in particular removing rhgb confuses systemd into a terrible state - > it prints text prompts for luks password but never waits for an answer - > it also attempts to ask plymouth to do graphical prompt for luks which > you dont see without some carefully timed series of ESC key presses to > flip it on and off ... and only in single user mode - perhaps systemd > does more in multi user mode and gets more confused. > > Details: > > F15 installed on sandy bridge laptop with i915 intel graphics. The > laptop has luks encyrpted swap and /home but not /. > > I did a "touch /.autorelabel" and rebooted - poo rained upon me in large > amounts ... very large :-( > > At some point the relabel ended and it booted but screen was hung at the > white balloon. I wasn't watching the relabelling process so ... Hard > reset - and reboot again. > > The machine now hangs during every boot - it hangs with the blue screen > + balloon - and it no longer gives me the plymouth graphical luks > password prompt. > > Hard reset - reboot removing rhgb and quiet - > > I see error: > > Unable to fix label of /run: read-only file system. > > in red text and it is clearly is trying to finish the relabeling and > failing on /run. > > I see multiple text password prompts for luks password - but it > doesn't stop - it keeps going - says something about 'forwarding to > plymouth'. > > typing in the luks password into the text console has no effect. > > I repeated above but in single user with selinux=0 - now same as > above - but if I type password and also toggle ESC enough times the > balloon will eventually show password prompt. Toggling ESC again leads > me back to text single user prompt. > > I can now exit single user and it comes up in multi user mode with > graphical login. > > There is some magic timing to get the series of ESC toggles to get a > luks password prompt otherwise the just machine hangs. > > (a) I dont think graphical prompts should be used in text boot. > > (b) systemd needs to wait for the password to be typed in. > > (c) what can I do to get the relabel to finish - every boot it keeps > trying - the /.autorelable file is never removed. > > I can no longer boot except doing the above contortions in single user > + ESC key flipping to get luks password in. > > Am very open to ideas how to fix this ... if i remove the > .autorelabel I assume things will go back to the way they were - but > clearly there are some issues here. > > thanks for any guidance > > gene Boot with enforcing=0 Should allow you to complete the relabel and remove /.autorelabel I would then login and yum -y update And also run restorecon -R -v /var To make sure everything is ok. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4CLvUACgkQrlYvE4MpobOhCgCfVY9fWKDF4MFxM/u5l04TmPku BLYAoJvdbr/nfC1HXbfK71mE22LqTTza =hWtA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
