Bug 707409

Summary: Fedora 15 boots into maintenance mode after upgrade from Fedora 14
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: bill-bugzilla.redhat.com, dennis, harald, johannbg, lpoetter, metherid, mschmidt, notting, plautrba
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Description Thomas Schweikle 2011-05-24 23:39:39 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 the system boots into maintenance mode after:
Cannot add dependency job for unit autofs.target, ignoring: Unit autofs.target failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details

After various:
Unit systemd-logger.service entered failed state
systemd-logger.service start request repeated to quickly, refusing to start.

udev: converting old udev database
Ext3-fs (dm-0): using internal journal
---- [ cut here ] ----
Warning: at drivers/char/tty_io.c:1325 tty_open+0x213/0x3b7()
Hardware name: 
Modules linked in:
Pid: 137, comm: plymouthd Not tainted 2.6.36.1-7.rc1.fc15.i686 #1

the whole thing crashes. And boots into maintenance mode. This on vmware, kvm *and* on real hardware. Taking a plain vanilla kernel not created, patched and build by fedora makes the system boot on vmware, kvm *and* real hardware.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.36.1-7.rc1.fc15.i686

for later kernels:
worker did not accept message -1 (Connection refused), kill it

multiple times. After these the system boots into maintenance mode.
It is the same for all newer kernels:
2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
2.6.38.5-24.fc15.i686
2.6.38.2-9.fc15.i686

How reproducible:
always. Just upgrade from Fedora 14.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 14
2. Update to the latest package-versions
3. Upgrade to Fedora 15
  
Actual results:
Unusable system.

Expected results:
Fedora 15 running seamlessly

Additional info:
Ferora runs if kernels are replaced with plain vanila ones from kernel.org, compiled using Fedora 14.

Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2011-05-25 16:18:27 UTC
Please boot with "log_buf_len=1M systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=kmsg". When you get to the maintenance shell, store the logs
using "dmesg > dmesg.txt". Attach the file here. Thanks.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-10-20 16:27:28 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 3 Michal Schmidt 2011-10-31 13:09:36 UTC
Closing, because this bug has been marked [NEEDINFO] for 5 months.
Feel free to reopen if you can provide the requested information.

Comment 4 Bill McGonigle 2012-02-27 18:56:05 UTC
Got here via a google search with this same problem.

I think it's from an incomplete upgrade - I got to the same symptom when my f14 box dropped the wifi adapter in the middle of an upgrade (and modprobing ath9k didn't bring it back to life as it usually does).  My startup got stuck on systemd dependencies - for some reason it couldn't start a LUKS volume that I could start by hand from a maintenance shell (and sh -x doesn't work anymore to debug...).  I was able to drop to emergency shell, do 'init 3' to get to a prompt, manually configure my network, and do a 'yum -y update' which pulled down several more packages, and then when I rebooted all was well.