Symbolic links missing on / (/bin->/usr/bin and such). /bin/bash missing or corrupted. /lib64/ libraries missing or corrupted. systemd itself missing, pivot root attempts to run systemd and that may be what is failing, but you don't really know what the underlying cause is for it to fail. What exactly was the "improper shutdown" The easiest way to debug is to livecd boot it mount up the old filessystems on say /oldroot (rootfs) mount /oldroot/usr for usr and so forth and then cd /oldroot and do a "chroot ." I would expect the chroot . to fail with some sort of error that may hint at what is broken. On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 7:15 AM murph nj <murphnj+fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 9:07 PM Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Usually, when it all goes wrong just after pivot-root, there is a > > problem with the new (real) root. Exactly how it goes wrong is not > > useful. I would look hard at whatever is mounted at /sysroot. It > > should be what you expect / (root) to be, but mounted ro at that point > > (`cat /proc/mounts` should show it mounted at /sysroot (see `man 5 > > fstab` > > for format); `ls -l /sysroot` should show the contents you expect). > > (All off the top of my head; I haven't rebooted to test.) > > > Thanks. That gives me something to examine. I'm working tonight, > will probably dig back in to this tomorrow. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx