On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:41 PM Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, Stan. I guess the files are almost similar, since they > > > > > have almost the same size: > > > > > > > > I agree. Your issue isn't the issue I had. Debugging these early > > > > issues is hard, because it has to be done from the emergency > > > > console. But, I think I remember there being other consoles to > > > > switch to that had things like logs, and there are some commands > > > > available, if you do an > > > > ls /usr/bin > > > > or > > > > ls /usr/sbin > > > > you should be able to examine the system to some extent to find why > > > > it is failing. I remember using less and vi at least. Could you > > > > mount one of the partitions and save / cp or cat the logs to a file > > > > there, maybe in your home directory. Then you can examine them > > > > from a working system, and even attach them to a bugzilla or email. > > > > > > > > > # ls -n /boot/initramfs* > > > > > -rw-------. 1 0 0 83396891 Jan 21 2020 > > > > > /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-5cbe81aa795444b29a47ec1bf2b6dca1.img > > > > > -rw-------. 1 0 0 37876860 Aug 14 11:45 > > > > > /boot/initramfs-6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64.img > > > > > -rw-------. 1 0 0 37878341 Aug 26 12:28 > > > > > /boot/initramfs-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64.img > > > > > > Thanks, Stan. Finally, I was able to capture the log of > > > > > > journalctl -xb > > > > > > which is at: > > > > > > https://bugzilla-attachments.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1985687 > > > > So, this seems to be the error: > > Aug 28 19:05:39 localhost @ystemctl[626]: Failed to switch root: > > Specified switch root path '/sysroot' does not seem to be an OS tree. > > os-release file is missing. > > > > And it looks like it was triggered by this: > > Aug 28 19:05:39 localhost systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 569 > > (plymouthd). > > > > After that message, systemd starts shutting down instead of starting up. > > > > Do you have fedora-release for fc38 installed? I can't see how you > > wouldn't, but just confirming. It looks like there is a bug in the > > code that is determining whether os-release is present, but only for > > warm restarts, not for cold boots. That would be plymouthd. > > Or whatever is creating the warm restart isn't creating it properly, so > > that plymouthd can recognize it, I think that would be systemd. > > > > Were either of those in the large batch of updates you installed? If > > so, you could try downgrading them from koji to see if it fixes the > > error. > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ > > Thanks, Stan. > > I do have: > > # rpm -q fedora-release-38 > fedora-release-38-36.noarch > # > > Moreover, both plytmouth and systemd that I have installed correspond > to versions dated earlier than the date of the first occurrence of the > reported issue. > > With the older > > kernel-6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64 > > there is no issue. Maybe the following is relevant: ---------------------------- # dracut --force --kver 6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64 --verbose dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --force --kver 6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64 --verbose dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command 'busybox' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmanctl' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand-wait-online' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because command 'wicked' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'biosdevname' will not be installed, because command 'biosdevname' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command 'busybox' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmanctl' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand-wait-online' could not be found! dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because command 'wicked' could not be found! dracut: *** Including module: bash *** dracut: *** Including module: systemd *** dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd *** dracut: *** Including module: systemd-sysusers *** dracut: *** Including module: nss-softokn *** dracut: *** Including module: dbus-broker *** dracut: *** Including module: rngd *** dracut: *** Including module: dbus *** dracut: *** Including module: i18n *** dracut: *** Including module: network-manager *** dracut: *** Including module: network *** dracut: *** Including module: ifcfg *** dracut: *** Including module: drm *** dracut: *** Including module: plymouth *** dracut: *** Including module: dm *** dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 60-persistent-storage-dm.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 55-dm.rules dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules *** dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules-extra *** dracut: *** Including module: kernel-network-modules *** dracut: *** Including module: lvm *** dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 56-lvm.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 60-persistent-storage-lvm.rules dracut: *** Including module: resume *** dracut: *** Including module: rootfs-block *** dracut: *** Including module: terminfo *** dracut: *** Including module: udev-rules *** dracut: Skipping udev rule: 40-redhat.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules dracut: Skipping udev rule: 70-persistent-net.rules dracut: *** Including module: dracut-systemd *** dracut: *** Including module: usrmount *** dracut: *** Including module: base *** dracut: *** Including module: fs-lib *** dracut: *** Including module: memstrack *** dracut: *** Including module: shutdown *** dracut: *** Including modules done *** dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies *** dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies done *** dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies *** dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies done *** dracut: *** Hardlinking files *** dracut: Mode: real dracut: Method: sha256 dracut: Files: 2153 dracut: Linked: 81 files dracut: Compared: 0 xattrs dracut: Compared: 974 files dracut: Saved: 563.14 KiB dracut: Duration: 0.057574 seconds dracut: *** Hardlinking files done *** dracut: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image *** dracut: *** Constructing AuthenticAMD.bin *** dracut: *** Store current command line parameters *** dracut: *** Stripping files *** dracut: *** Stripping files done *** dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64.img' *** dracut: Using auto-determined compression method 'pigz' dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initramfs-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64.img' done *** # ----------------------------------- Paul _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
