Bug 1404088

Summary:	Recent kernels fail to boot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ben Cotton <bcotton>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	25	CC:	bcotton, cz172638, gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Ben Cotton 2016-12-13 03:07:32 UTC

Description of problem:
Kernels after 4.7.5-200 will not boot on my HP laptop. GRUB loads the kernel and initrd (as verified by putting `echo WTF` after the initrd line), but nothing happens after that. 

I tried removing `rhgb` and `quiet` from the kernel options, but it makes no difference. Adding `rdshell` gives no additional output. It does not make it as far as prompting for the passphrase for my LUKS-encrypted root volume, so I suspect it's something related to that, but I can't tell. There are no entries in the systemd journal.

I've searched for solutions and can't find anything. I'm not sure where to go from here to troubleshoot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.7.5-200 and later

How reproducible:
Happens every time

Comment 1 Laura Abbott 2017-01-17 01:10:44 UTC

*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************
We apologize for the inconvenience.  There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 25 kernel bugs.
 
Fedora 25 has now been rebased to 4.9.3-200.fc25.  Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.
 
If you have moved on to Fedora 26, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 26.
 
If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2017-01-17 15:03:18 UTC

Tried kernel 4.9.3-200.fc25 yesterday, with the same behavior.

Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2017-04-11 14:33:57 UTC

*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************

We apologize for the inconvenience.  There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 25 kernel bugs.

Fedora 25 has now been rebased to 4.10.9-200.fc25.  Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.

If you have moved on to Fedora 26, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 26.

If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 4 Justin M. Forbes 2017-04-28 17:05:19 UTC

*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************
This bug is being closed with INSUFFICIENT_DATA as there has not been a response in 2 weeks. If you are still experiencing this issue, please reopen and attach the 
relevant data from the latest kernel you are running and any data that might have been requested previously.