Bug 1575295

Summary: Booting to emergency mode fails
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins>
Component: selinux-policy-targetedAssignee: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Alan Jenkins 2018-05-05 19:10:05 UTC
Description of problem:
Not possible to boot to emergency.target

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-targeted-3.14.1-24.fc28.noarch

How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot into GRUB menu
2. Press 'e' to edit
3. In the linux line, add "systemd.unit=emergency.target"

Actual results:
systemd is booted from the root filesystem.  It logs that the journal service is stopped (this is it noticing the death of journald from the initrd).  It logs that initrd-switch-root has finished.  Then, it just repeatedly logs the message that it is looping too fast, and it is throttling execution.

It does not start an emergency shell, prompt for the root password, or show any response to normal keypresses.

Expected results:
An emergency shell

Additional info:
This only happens when booting with selinux in enforcing mode. When booting in permissive mode, I get the expected results.

Comment 1 John Griffiths 2018-05-22 20:21:27 UTC
Same for me.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 19:57:43 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life.
On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
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Comment 3 Alan Jenkins 2019-05-02 21:11:05 UTC
Appears to be fixed.  At least, I was not able to reproduce it in Fedora 30.  Hooray :-).

Comment 4 Lukas Vrabec 2019-05-15 06:51:48 UTC
Thanks for update. Closing this ticket.