Bug 1147256 - system freezes during startup F21,one encrypted volume, brief emergency mode message appears
Summary: system freezes during startup F21,one encrypted volume, brief emergency mode ...
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 21
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-28 14:22 UTC by bugmailer
Modified: 2014-11-10 21:13 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-11-10 21:13:38 UTC
Type: Bug
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boot messages F21 (2.28 MB, image/jpeg)
2014-09-28 14:22 UTC, bugmailer
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Description bugmailer 2014-09-28 14:22:11 UTC
Created attachment 941995 [details]
boot messages F21

Description of problem:
The system freezes (or don't do anything) during startup. A brief message "Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type journalctl -xb to view system logs etc". Next message: "Stopped Emergency Shell." A moment later I have to type in my password to decrypt an encrypted volume (/home/{user}). Fedora continues, and several seconds later the system halts. A photo of the screen is included. After install from the live CD, it started up correctly. After the third time or so, it always shows this kind of behaviour. I didn't install any software, or let Linux communicate with the internet. F20 did worked pretty well on my Mac. I have had no problems during startup, and I used to work with an encrypted volume as well.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pre-release version of Fedora 21

How reproducible:
always, every time I startup Linux

Steps to Reproduce:
1. power on
2. let linux choose the default option (the installed Linux kernel on line 1). thus not selecting the emergency mode, which is on line 2.
3.press Esc when Plymouth wants to show a graphical boot splash screen. (I have never seen a correctly displayed Plymount graphical boot splash screen on my screen because the image is distorted or instead, I see several code lines and that's it.)

Actual results:
freezes

Expected results:
to have a screen which ask me to enter my password for {user} for entering the desktop

Additional info:
ISO: "Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21_Alpha-1"
Hardware: MacBookPro i5 build in 2010/2011

Comment 1 bugmailer 2014-10-02 21:40:08 UTC
I removed Linux F21 several days ago, and I installed F21 again, after I had removed all Linux partitions (note: the 'original' partitions of MacOSX are still there). I have used the new 'instance' of F21 for the last 2 days, and still works perfectly. It only crashed once. Interestingly enough, I have seen once the Fedora boot splash screen. Every other time, I only saw 4 white lines that becomes yellow after 3 seconds. I need to press ESC to see the progress (OK or failed) and to be able to enter the passphrase for the encrypted /home volume. Maybe there is a relationship between working on Mac and at next startup running F21 but I haven't found anything so far.


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