Description of problem: it appears the init scripts mount the root fs with ro flag causing "setting kernel parameters" to hang. and after ctrl-c the run- level switches to 5 and later the network interface eth0 fails to load reporting '/var/... read-only' and much later the "system logger" halts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.after smooth update from fc2 to fc3t3 2.booting... 3.some init scripts run , but later it hangs ( just after "starting system logger" Additional info:
Read-only is how it's always started on bootup; setting kernel parameters is normally done with the root FS read only. More likely it's hanging talking to your hardware clock (the next thing in the boot sequence.) Is this the stock test3 kernel or a later one?
it's not the clock ( i guess ) it goes all the way until the "starting system logger" and then stops/loops for ever ( a very long time, more than i waited) but when i press the "ctrl-alt-del" it changes run-level to 6 and it boots. also... i removed the system logger from the services boot list and the kernel+os boots smoothly :-) i'll try to figure out what's really the problem (( thanks for the quick response ))
i continued to look into it and found out that removing the "rhgb" from the kernel's boot command makes the boot process run smoothly while otherwise stuck the boot process just after the "setting kernel parameters"
this was the xorg vs rhgb bug. Upgrade both those packages to current, and this will go away.
thanks