Hi, I have a request for list regulars. The Fedora Workstation working group is curious if there's any pattern or categorization how Fedora installations typically break. i.e. the installation is successful, the system has been updated multiple times successfully, and then for whatever reason it breaks. Are most failures hardware related? This could be broken down into hard failure (drive or logic board failed) and soft failure (some hardware configuration change and reverting the change resolves the problem). What portion of the failures are early boot failures? (Defined as bootloader, kernel, or early initramfs failures. But excludes being landed at a dracut prompt.) What portion of the failures land the user at a dracut shell? What portion of the failures does the user get to a graphical shell but can't login? What portion of the failures can the user login but there's some sort of anomalous behavior? What portion of all failures are fixable without reinstalling? Is the GRUB "rescue" menu entry ever useful in resolving problems? Could everyone reading this try booting the "rescue" menu entry and describe what happens? How does the actual behavior compare to what you thought would happen? The questions list is not complete, feel free to add your own categorizations / failure patterns that you tend to see. Thanks! -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
